Various coating agents which increase hydrophobicity (water repellency) to repel water have been developed,You can waterproof iPhone just by sprayingThings are also on the market. However, most water ...

Mosquitoes spread several diseases, among them malaria and dengue virus. In 2020, about 241 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, with a few more million cases occurring in 2021. Nearly half ...

Bad weather is the nightmare of every driver out there, although we must admit that we feel a guilty pleasure when we’re forced to drive under heavy rain. As you know, each car out there must, or at ...

The amazing water-shedding ability of the lotus leaf has long inspired materials scientists. The leaf’s wax-coated microstructures cause rain droplets to bounce off the surface, carrying away with ...

Soil water repellency (SWR) is a phenomenon whereby soils exhibit a temporary resistance to water infiltration due to the presence and behaviour of hydrophobic organic compounds on soil particle ...

Water repellency in soils and granular materials is a critical property influencing water infiltration, drainage, and the overall hydrological response in both natural and engineered environments.

A metal that repels water so effectively that water droplets appear to bounce off it, has been developed by scientists at the University of Rochester. The researchers say that they were inspired by ...

The frictional mechanism that resists the motion of drops on inclined surfaces and when affected by wind drag has now been revealed by a team of researchers. They have also developed a theory by which ...

Combining superhydrophobic surfaces with Leidenfrost levitation -- picture a water droplet hovering over a hot surface rather than making physical contact with it -- has been explored extensively for ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Johns Manville (JM), a leading global manufacturer of energy-efficient building products and engineered specialty materials and a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced today ...

Using lasers, scientists have created a new material that is so water-repellent that droplets can bounce straight off of it. The surface could be used for everything from preventing ice from ...

Dippers (Cinclidae) are the only passerines that find their prey almost exclusively under water. We examined the breast feathers of the five species of dippers for barb diameter and spacing. These ...