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  • An artificial hairy surface that refuses to get wet

    For the first time, a water-repelling surface has been developed that is almost perfectly hydrophobic and uses no chemical treatments.

    Blog posts | February 24, 2010 11:28pm PST

  • Research gives clues for self-cleaning materials, water-striding robots

    Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, and even micro-robots that can walk on water may all be within reach thanks to the work of scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at...

    Blog posts | May 7, 2009 4:08pm PDT

  • Liquid camera lenses controlled by sound

    Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second. Because these lenses are simply powered by water and sound, they...

    Blog posts | September 30, 2008 9:23am PDT

  • 1,500 ships to fight climate change?

    According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt...

    Blog posts | September 7, 2008 9:58am PDT

  • New oil-repelling material from MIT

    MIT researchers have developed flexible surface coatings that repel oils. According to the research team, this is the first material able to do it. They say that these findings could have...

    Blog posts | December 9, 2007 9:06am PST

  • Liquid drops defying gravity

    Researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, have shown that droplets of liquid can travel uphill when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate. 'In fact, if the plate vibrates at the...

    Blog posts | September 27, 2007 9:42am PDT

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  • An artificial hairy surface that refuses to get wet

    For the first time, a water-repelling surface has been developed that is almost perfectly hydrophobic and uses no chemical treatments.

    Blog posts | February 24, 2010 11:28pm PST

  • Research gives clues for self-cleaning materials, water-striding robots

    Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, and even micro-robots that can walk on water may all be within reach thanks to the work of scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at...

    Blog posts | May 7, 2009 4:08pm PDT

  • Liquid camera lenses controlled by sound

    Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second. Because these lenses are simply powered by water and sound, they...

    Blog posts | September 30, 2008 9:23am PDT

  • 1,500 ships to fight climate change?

    According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt...

    Blog posts | September 7, 2008 9:58am PDT

  • New oil-repelling material from MIT

    MIT researchers have developed flexible surface coatings that repel oils. According to the research team, this is the first material able to do it. They say that these findings could have...

    Blog posts | December 9, 2007 9:06am PST

  • Liquid drops defying gravity

    Researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, have shown that droplets of liquid can travel uphill when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate. 'In fact, if the plate vibrates at the...

    Blog posts | September 27, 2007 9:42am PDT

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