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A self-healing, water-repellent, spray-on coating is hundreds of times more durable than its counterparts, report researchers in a new article. A self-healing, water-repellent, spray-on coating ...

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When water droplets suspended in the air freeze, they generate snowflakes — ice crystals with six-fold symmetry. But when ice grows along a solid surface, like frost growing on windows, it can take on ...

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 ...

This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Imagine a coating that causes water to bead into almost perfect spheres, to enable any ...

Using lasers, scientists have created a new material that is so water-repellent that droplets can bounce straight off of it. The surface could be used for everything from preventing ice from ...

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Figure 1: The non-wetting leg of a water strider. For comparison, we made a hydrophobic ‘leg’ from a smooth quartz fibre that was similar in shape and size to a ...