Passive anti-icing surfaces, or icephobic surfaces, are an area of great interest because of their significant economic, energy and safety implications in the prevention and easy removal of ice in ...

The slippery coatings the team has developed, called liquid-impregnated surfaces, could have numerous advantages, including eliminating production waste that results from material that sticks to ...

How slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide Engineered surface treatment developed at MIT can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processes Date: April 22, 2019 Source: ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses how carnivorous plants inspire smart slippery surfaces and bionic robots. Carnivorous plants have inspired innovations of advanced stimuli ...

A slippery rough surface (SRS) inspired by both pitcher plants and rice leaves outperforms state-of-the-art liquid-repellent surfaces in water harvesting applications, according to a team of ...

Researchers at the University of Houston have reported the discovery of a material that can be applied to any surface to repel ice. The material, known as a magnetic slippery surface (MAGSS) is ...

A duck’s back is not the only slippery surface water is prone to slide off of. Researchers have developed a new method of coating surfaces in a liquid-like layer to make them extra slick.

If an unfortunate insect finds itself trapped inside a Nepenthes pitcher plant its chances of survival are pretty slim – these tube-shaped plants are lined with a slippery surface that causes victims ...

The surface of ice is a slippery subject. For more than 160 years, scientists have been debating the quirks of ice’s exterior. Frozen water is coated in a layer of molecules that behave like a ...