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New "Hairy" Material Is Almost Perfectly Hydrophobic
drewsup writes "Wolfgang Sigmund, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Florida, has created a material modeled after spider hairs that acts as a nearly perfect water-repelling surface. Quoting Science Daily: 'A paper about the surface, which works equally well with hot or cold water, appears in this month's edition of the journal Langmuir. Spiders use their water-repelling hairs to stay dry or avoid drowning, with water spiders capturing air bubbles and toting them underwater to breathe. Potential applications for UF's ultra-water-repellent surfaces are many, Sigmund said. When water scampers off the surface, it picks up and carries dirt with it, in effect making the surface self-cleaning. As such, it is ideal for some food packaging, or windows, or solar cells that must stay clean to gather sunlight, he said. Boat designers might coat hulls with it, making boats faster and more efficient.' Hairy glass, anyone?"
People call me hydrophobic but it's like water off a ducks back to me.
America, Home of the Brave.
It has rabies?
Al Gore is not going to be happy.
just put the spider fibres on the inside of the jacket and it repels the sweat.
Probrem solved
Orbis terrarum est non altus satis
Hairy food packaging. I think someone will come up with a better name for that material.
... I asked my cat and she somehow didn`t look surprised. How many lifes does this new stuff have?
These are scientists, not video hardware technicians!
If you send them instructions along with a meerschaum pipe and some beard clippers as tokens of good will, they should be able to figure it out.
it's called "fur".
Sound true enough to me. Sometimes the people who don't shower are also hairy and disgusting.
'A paper about the surface, which works equally well
When it seems the paper the wrote works equally well?
*ducks*