Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a super-hydrophobic surface that can be used to generate electrical voltage. When salt water flows over this specially patterned ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester in New York have taken a significant step in developing hydrophobic materials, with a new technique that enables them to transform metals into extremely ...

(Phys.org) —In a basement lab on BYU's campus, mechanical engineering professor Julie Crockett analyzes water as it bounces like a ball and rolls down a ramp. This phenomenon occurs because Crockett ...

Researchers and scientists at the University of Rochester have been able to invent a new laser patterning system to transform metals into materials with new properties, creating super hydrophobic ...

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Humans have marveled for millennia at how water beads up and rolls off flowers, caterpillars and some insects, and how insects like water striders are able to walk effortlessly on water. New research ...

"These surfaces enable products that cannot be contaminated or dirtied, even under very messy operations. They can also radically improve the efficiency of a major element of electrical power plants ...