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11/20/2008

Superhydrophobic Surfaces Make Water Bounce

With an ultra high-speed camera, "GE scientists captured details of water droplets dancing on amazing superhydrophobic surfaces developed in GE Global Research's Nanotechnology lab." Video after the break.

We discovered that even when the surfaces had the same contact angle for stationary water droplets, their ability to resist the wetting of impacting droplets could be totally different.
[via Gizmodo]

This entry was posted on 11/20/2008 3:00pm and is filed under Science, Unusual .
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