Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon

Posted by kensai on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:27AM
from the newscientist.com dept.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2283348-lubricant-found-in-a-beetles-leg-is-more-slippery-than-teflon/

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Re:Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than T... by birgitt on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:56AM (#27809744)

This is so cool! Liquid-infused coatings and materials often are more slippery than Teflon.

I wrote a book chapter with my colleagues about nature-inspired repellent materials: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Y7H2DwAAQBAJ&oi=f...

We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/

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Re:Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than T... by kensai on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:28AM (#27807945)

Potential applications in robotics (if they find ways to make it cheaply)? Direct link to paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rs...

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Re:Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than T... by birgitt on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:58AM (#27809760)

We're commercializing highly repellent, nature-inspired, liquid-infused coatings here: We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/

Our tech: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0

What types of pricing do you think would make sense to the robotics community and what types of materials do you typically work with?

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