SLIPS: Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces An Unmet Need A simple, inexpensive, and robust material that repels a variety of liquids and solids has immediate relevance to applications ra... Read more
Resilient, ultra-slippery glass could lead to self-cleaning, scratch-resistant windows, lenses, and solar panels A new transparent, bioinspired coating makes ordinary glass tough, self-clean... Read more
Slippery technology shown to prevent more than 99% of harmful bacterial slime from forming on surfaces. Biofilms may no longer have any solid ground upon which to stand. A team of Harvard sc... Read more
This new approach to icephobic materials is a truly disruptive id Although advances in refrigeration technology means we don’t need to defrost the freezer as often as we used to, many of us... Read more
It could even lead to self-cleaning windows After a rain, the cupped leaf of a pitcher plant becomes a virtually frictionless surface. Sweet-smelling and elegant, the carnivore attracts ants... Read more