Raincoats, car windshields, waterproof phones: They all use a little chemistry to stay dry. Inspired by nature, chemists use extremely water-fearing, or superhydrophobic, coatings to repel water from ...
MSN: Old tires find new life: Rubber particles strengthen superhydrophobic coatings against corrosion
Old tires find new life: Rubber particles strengthen superhydrophobic coatings against corrosion
New York, Dec. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Superhydrophobic Coatings Industry" - https://www ...
Materials scientists have created a 'superhydrophobic' coating that easily slicks away viscous liquids like syrup, honey and ketchup. They detail the engineering feat in a new paper that describes ...
Acsh.org: Safe, Edible Bottle Coating Empties Every Last Drop of Honey, Syrup, Ketchup
Safe, Edible Bottle Coating Empties Every Last Drop of Honey, Syrup, Ketchup
Superhydrophobic materials offer a strategy for developing marine anti-corrosion materials due to their low solid-liquid contact area and low surface energy. However, existing superhydrophobic ...
A new superhydrophobic coating maintains its water repellency even after thousands of cycles of stretching (Nano Lett. 2014, DOI: 10.1021/nl5019782). The coating works on a variety of surfaces and ...
A moth's eye and lotus leaf were the inspirations for an antireflective water-repelling, or superhydrophobic, glass coating that holds significant potential for solar panels, lenses, detectors, ...
UMass Lowell: UMass Lowell and Shenkar College Join Forces to Develop Smart, Self-cleaning Coatings
A team of plastics engineering faculty and student researchers at UMass Lowell and Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Israel has developed new self-cleaning coatings that are low-cost, ...