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Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Anyone who is partial to ketchup with their food will know how difficult it is to get the final dregs from the bottle but now the Telegraph reports that scientists have created one of the most slippery materials ever that promises to result in new self-cleaning surfaces that never get dirty, could be used to coat the inside of bottles and jars to help consumers get all of the food inside, or in the energy industry for making oil flow more efficiently through pipes. Professor Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientists at Harvard University, was inspired by the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants, which has a highly slippery surface at the top of its flute-shaped leaves so that insects tumble down into the digestive juices contained inside. The new material, known as a Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surface or SLIPS boasts a rare trait called "omniphobicity", which means it can repel both water and oily materials. "If we used substance like ours to coat the inside of bottles, it would be possible to get it all out," says Aizenberg. "The only problem may be that the sauce may come out a little too easily on to their food.""
Contraceptive compatible?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/ -- We all know the ending.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
This opens a world of possibilities to the industry of underwear... First you don't need to iron, now you don't need to wash xD.
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but it slipped down here.
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plenty of politicians are made of this stuff.
You can't handle the truth.
Think of the practical joke possibilities... floors, door handles... oh colleagues' coffee mugs.
I think the Health & Safety people are going to clamp down on this one.
no, it's the propulsion gel...for science!
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
Why re-invent the wheel, just skin a few politicians.
Be careful if you're thinking of applying this to your snow sled.
I found a video of one of the first tests of this material. They sprayed it on the bottom of a sled so they could measure how much faster it could get down the hill. The results are fairly impressive.
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Remind me not to eat a meal that you've cooked.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
It's full of Santorum!
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Whichever it happens to be, if it can cover soft surfaces and survive cleaning we'll find it inside plastic vaginas.
Um ...
"and girl!"
I talk about stuff.
YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG.
Are you saying "You're REALLY REALLY wrong." ?
or are you saying "When you fuck, you are not doing it correctly." ?
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Hmm, she didn't mention that to me.
They should just use politicians; you know, after grinding them up into a thin, tasteless paste.