Slippery Wenzel State

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Channel: American Chemical Society · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Authors Tak-Sing Wong and Xianming Dai describe how they drew inspiration from nature to develop a new water-repellent material known as "slippery wet surface," which combines nano-textures and lubricant to create a highly slippery surface. Read the related ACS Nano article at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.5b04151.

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