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Re:New metal is so hydrophobic it makes water bounce like magic by msandford on Thursday January 22, 2015 @08:16PM (#8932878)
Sure, but if you dump something on it which has a grain size that's similar to the voids in the material, all bets are off. If the average void is 1um and you put 0.1um dust all over it, I would suspect that it would embed itself in there pretty nicely.
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Re:New metal is so hydrophobic it makes water bounce like magic by thrownaway2424 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @08:51PM (#8933015)
Or a liquid that's not repelled by the surface. What would happen if you just dumped a lot of washing up liquid on this nanosurface? How would you rinse it off?

Watching the video I thought the thing with the teflon was a bit silly. After all if you wanted to think of something that won't hold water at an angle, wouldn't you think of ordinary glass rather than teflon?

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Re:New metal is so hydrophobic it makes water bounce like magic by jjoonathan on Friday January 23, 2015 @12:09AM (#8933503)
Glass windows regularly hold water at a 90˚ angle and against interstate-speed winds.
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