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Chemistry World
July 5, 2006
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Perfect Coating Won't Touch Water Imagine a container that can hold liquid without actually touching it. Just such a container could soon become reality following the development by two chemists of a perfectly hydrophobic surface.   |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2010 |
Waterproof Cotton That Can go Through the Wash Chinese researchers have made cotton fabric that is completely impervious to water and can be put through the laundry without losing its superhydrophobic properties, overcoming a key obstacle in the commercialisation of these highly waterproof materials. |
Chemistry World
March 5, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Tough self-cleaning coating sticks it to stains Clothing stains may be a thing of the past as scientists in the UK have developed a tough, self-cleaning coating that can be applied to cotton. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Superomniphobic surface sees off non-Newtonian fluids A material that is equally good at repelling water, oil, concentrated acid and alkali solutions, and non-Newtonian fluids like polymer solutions has been created by chemists in the US. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2015
James Urquhart |
Super-repellent coating ready in seconds A quick and easy to apply coating can make surfaces oil, alcohol and water repellent. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2012
Holly Sheahan |
Oil loving membranes for oil spill clean-ups Researchers in China have made a new type of membrane that can separate oil from water and could potentially be used in oil spills, such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
Yuandi Li |
Self-cleaning fabrics now even cleaner US scientists have made a self-cleaning fabric that lasts longer, shows better antibacterial action and is more comfortable to wear than current materials. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
A Chequerboard of Water Water droplets cling in flat squares and dance in round globes on a smart surface created by South Korean researchers. Exposure to light wipes away the pattern, and an alternative can be written in with no etching required. |
Chemistry World
February 5, 2013
Cara E Sutton |
'Invisible gates' trap water droplets Researchers in Japan have created a novel superhydrophobic hybrid surface that can separate water droplets sliding down it based on nothing more than their size. |
Chemistry World
July 26, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Remote controlled omniphobic surface Chemists in the US have developed a material that normally resists wetting by both aqueous and organic liquids, but can have this property 'switched off' using a magnet, allowing liquids to soak the surface. |
Technology Research News
April 9, 2003 |
Biochip moves liquids with heat Researchers from Princeton University have made a microscopic device that uses heat to move, mix and split droplets of liquid. The device could be used in small, battery-operated chemical sensors and hand-held medical testers. |
Chemistry World
December 18, 2014
Victoria Richards |
Catching water with imitation beetle bumps Inspired by both desert beetles and marine mussels, scientists in Saudi Arabia have devised a new method for creating micropatterned superhydrophobic surfaces that efficiently harvest fog. |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2009
Nina Notman |
Writing channels into a porous matrix US scientists have used a laser to write a hydrophilic pathway into a three-dimensional hydrophobic porous matrix. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Colorful Waterproofing for Anything Materials scientists in China have developed a simple process to add an extremely waterproof coating to a variety of materials. |
Chemistry World
April 19, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
New Power for Smart Garments Scientists in the US have taken the first steps towards designing a flexible and lightweight fabric that can act as a power supply for smart garments. |
Wired
Thomas Hayden |
Just Dew It: What Scientists Can Learn From Flower Petals Researchers in China have discovered why water droplets roll off a lotus leaf like mercury yet stick to rose petals like peanut butter. |
Chemistry World
November 20, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
A drop of extra bounce US researchers have discovered a simple way to modify a water-repellent surface so that bouncing drops of water spend significantly less time in contact with the surface. |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2015
Andy Extance |
Trampolining droplets raise hopes for ice-shedding surfaces With fellow team members at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Tom Schutzius has worked out what was causing this previously-unknown 'trampolining'. |
U.S. CPSC
October 21, 2010 |
Claire-Sprayway Recalls Fabric Protector Due to Respiratory Hazard Overexposure to fumes, vapor or spray mist from the product can pose a serious respiratory hazard to consumers. |
Technology Research News
September 24, 2003 |
Reflective dust IDs substances Researchers from the University of California at San Diego have found a way to coax microscopic silicon mirrors to orient so that the mirrors reveal information about their environment. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2007
Paul Lukas |
Fashion Forward We've come a long way from the miracle of rayon. How new fabric technology is changing our duds. |
Wired
January 2001
David Pescovitz |
Stuff Love The latest new materials, from a stronger-than-cement plastic concrete that floats on water to a polymeric coating that completely prevents rust... |
National Defense
January 2015
Valerie Insinna |
New Smart Fabric Manufacturer Looking to Break Into Defense Market Unlike most other wearable sensors, which typically measure physiological data such as heart rate and respiration, the sensors in Bebop's fabric can also measure other kinds of contact between a person and his or her environment. |
Adventure
Jun/Jul 2004 |
Ask Adventure Beyond bare necessities, sandals, coffee, towelettes, duct tape, and binoculars make camp-life easier... Designing moisture-wicking garments took some ingenuity by chemical engineers. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
Laura Howes |
Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames Jamie Grunlan's team at the University of Texas A&M, US, has used layer by layer deposition to coat fabrics with a thin, environmentally benign, fire retardant layer of polymers. |
Chemistry World
January 25, 2012
Jon Evans |
Water repellent polymer slows down drug delivery It turns out that superhydrophobic materials are very good at slowly releasing drugs over extended periods of time, from weeks to months. |
