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 ...

These surfaces can range from refined oil, wet concrete, water, mud and other liquids. In industrial application Ultra-Dry could prove ideal for specific applications, like when you drop your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Filipino scientists have discovered a simple and affordable way to create dynamically adjustable water-based lenses with potential applications ranging ...