In practice, researchers dust a hydrophobic powder onto a liquid drop, the mixture shrinks into a bead-like shape thanks to a physical phenomenon called capillary interaction. These forces partly stem ...

Researchers in the U.S. have discovered a self-sustaining material that uses capillary condensation to harvest water from the ...

Other times you need the liquid to spread evenly across a surface, such as paint on a wall. But can you predict what a drop of water ... and are water-fearing or hydrophobic, meaning water will ...

However, traditional surfaces suffer from a drop in performance under high subcooling ... The new surface integrates short hydrophobic nanowires and hydrophilic microchannels in a structured ...

The project used a glass slide as a substrate, but enhanced the surface's hydrophobic nature by coating it with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic. By then adding or removing water from the droplet on ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a super-hydrophobic ... liquid like synthetic oil—which holds charge and won't mix with salt water—Bandaru and Fan created a ...

Filipino scientists developed affordable and dynamically adjustable water-based lenses with various potential future applications, including in ...

MANILA - Filipino researchers have developed a low-cost, easy-to-make water-based liquid lens that can be adjusted dynamically, opening up possibilities for its use in classrooms, laboratories, ...