A team of nanomaterial scientists and mechanical engineers at MIT have created a superhydrophobic material that is 10,000 times more slippery than existing hydrophobic surface. This could seriously ...

Hydrophobic materials have potential for everything from self-cleaning windscreens to bottles that dispense the last drop of syrup, but such materials tend to be on the fragile side. One possible ...

Desert sand is made hydrophobic be adding the additive SP-HFS 1609. The additive creates a capilliary breaking hydrophobic encapsulation of the sand making it resistant to salts, particularly sodium ...

What do a non-stick pan, a raincoat and a medical stent have in common? They all have water-repelling properties that resist water uptake or degradation by hydrolysis. Hydrophobicity, the capacity to ...

As many chemists know, the membrane distillation (MD) process has gained increasing popularity and attention for saline treatment, especially because of its extremely high salt rejection (the ...

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The resulting material proved to be highly hydrophobic – repelling a wide variety of liquids – while also exhibiting light weight and high mechanical strength. What's more, it retained its ...

Behold the new material created by scientists at the University of Rochester. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a material so water repellent that liquid drops just bounce off the ...

Surfaces inspired by cicada wings and mosquito eyes have antifogging properties. A team of scientists from France and the US has created surfaces that mimic these natural systems, in an attempt to ...