Slippery Science: Crafting the World’s Most Water-Repellent Surface
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A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking. Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry.

Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry. The discovery challenges existing ideas about friction between solid surfaces and water and opens up a new avenue for studying droplet slipperiness at the molecular level. The new technique has applications in a range of fields, including plumbing, optics, and the auto and maritime industries. “Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale” Nature Chemistry. DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01346-3