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Lotus Nanotech
Makarand writes "The lotus, a flowering plant native to Asia whose waxy leaves repel water droplets and particles of dirt, is teaching nanotechnologists
a thing or two. Scientists at BASF have
found that the lotus plant surfaces have a coating of wax crystals
around 1 nm in diameter. This roughness on the nanometer scale
helps the plant surface to reduce the actual contact area to 2-3%
of the droplet covered area making its surfaces superhydrophobic.
If the surface is slanting, the droplet rolls off, instead of sliding off,
picking up small particles of dirt on the way giving a "self-cleaning" effect.
BASF is now working on an aerosol spray to coat a surface with such a self-cleaning nanostructure. The self cleaning shoe might soon be a reality."
Just what we need, putting more people out of work by making them redundant. tsk.
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When I grow up, I want to be a kid again.
And what if you got some of the spray onto your socks while applying it to your shoes... I can see it now - forever stinking, laundry-resistant... oh the horror!
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I'll just be able to give myself a coating and not worry about bathing for a year.
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making its surfaces superhydrophobic.
Jim get the shotgun, the lotus has the hydrophoby!
Explanation
remember this?
Colonel Homer's outfit when he became Lurlene Lumpkin's manager..
"Now this is made from a space-age fabric especially designed for Elvis. Sweat actually cleans this suit!"
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
Isn't that usually known as rain...?
When are we going to realize that lab rats are cancer prone in general? I think lab rat, I think cancer on a stick.
... that if you turn the lotus sideways, it produces 3 resources, or "mana" if you will, before burying itself at the end of the round.
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Self Cleaning Pants. It's about to be the year 2003, and we're starting to have the technology for the ultimate pants. I'm talking about the kind of pants that Sci-Fi authors of old dreamed of. We have the Dockers with extra pockets for our gadgets, and the Levis with radiation sheilding. And now with this substance we will be able to make The Ultimate Pants! I see a utopia in our near future where the free people of Earth are released from the slavery of washing their gadget toting pants. Oh the luxury!
The couch (big flat rocks with lumbar support)
Fast food (grubs)
Pamela Anderson (Grand Tetons)
The Rolling Stones (dinosaur fossils)
Windows (swarms of locusts)
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Marijuana - the classic
The Poppy - heroin, morphine, opium... God's own medicine
Coca - cocaine. Nature's best stimulant
Just think of how boring civilization would be if it was not for these three mind alterning substances.
PS: Yes, so the heroin has some acetic acid, but you could conceivably get that from fermenting some fruit...
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I've hear that American's have the richest piss out of any country. (We have the most protein, vitamins, minerals etc.)
Damn it's good to be an American. A Somolian could probably live off my piss.
...we don't make a lot of the nanotech you buy, we make a lot of the nanotech you buy, deadlier.
anybody else feels a bit strange at the thought of lotus technology applied to windows?
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-- Serge K. Keller
I don't clean my car, haven't done for 2 years or so and my car is white.
The dirt seems to reach equilibrium.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I don't think there is a chemical out there that will clean up that OS.
Not noteable, IMO a rubbish article.
Forget self cleaning windows, how about self cleaning self? Just spray this stuff on myself, and no more showers! I bet chicks dig the waxy coating, too.