But it's not just plants that use the lotus effect—land living cyanobacteria (Hassallia byssoidea) also use extreme water repellency to protect themselves from water films and competitors.

They also found that while barley exudates didn't impact soil water repellency, corn exudates did. Research such as Hallett's shows that during the growing season-and beyond-there are delicate ...

In doing so, as she and her team describe in Science, they found that after some tweaking, the result was a truly remarkable repellency material. After discovering that the soot that showed up on ...

Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed ...

Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a surface material that repels water droplets almost entirely. The ...

Superhydrophobicity is a property of surfaces that exhibit extreme water repellency, characterized by water contact angles greater than 150°. In contrast to superhydrophilicity, where surfaces display ...

I’m speaking of the key ingredient found on and in nearly every piece of outerwear with any kind of water repellency: the chemicals that keep us dry through any weather. But PFAS are not just in ...

Lavender essential oils have an 80.9% repellency effect against the mosquito species Anopheles stephensi. Place tied bouquets around your house to help keep flies out. Plant it in sunny areas of ...