Researchers create the most water-repellent surface ever
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
An artist’s depiction of the liquid-like layer of molecules repelling water droplets (image credit: Ekaterina Osmekhina/Aalto University). A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry.
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