If an unfortunate insect finds itself trapped inside a Nepenthes pitcher plant its chances of survival are pretty slim – these tube-shaped plants are lined with a slippery surface that causes victims ...

The technology is called SLIPS–or Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces. Developed at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, SLIPS is good at repelling ...

A slippery material aptly named SLIPS (slippery liquid ... from forming a biofilm on the greasy surface, which consisted of polymers (gray circles) and oil (yellow goo). The QSIs were slowly released ...

Inspired by the flesh-eating pitcher plant, she created a material so slippery that biofilms simply cannot form upon it. The material is called Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces or, more ...