Goggles, glasses and windshield can fog up if there’s a difference in temperature or humidity. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new anti-fog coating that warms up the surface without needing electricity.
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Harvard scientists have led an international team to develop a new surface that can reconfigure its shape, stickiness or slipperiness on demand, through the application of a magnetic field.
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Rubber and steel are at different ends of the spectrum of hardness, and wherever an object falls on that scale is typically where it will stay. But now, researchers have developed a metamaterial that can change the stiffness of its surface, from hard to soft and back.
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researchers at Northwestern University have deduced the optimal texture roughness required make surfaces hydrophobic and keep them dry underwater for months at a time, which could prove invaluable for everything from pipes to boats and submarines.
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When it comes to creating surfaces, it's a simple task to either make ones that are smooth or ones that are bumpy. But now researchers at MIT have created one that can be both, with the ability to dynamically change texture through the application of pressure.
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Researchers at MIT have developed a smart curved surface that can morph at will to reduce drag, generating a series of small, evenly spaced dimples that make it resemble the outside of a golf ball.
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Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created air-stable water droplet networks that could potentially be used to harvest water from fog or dew.
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The close of 2013 gives us an excellent opportunity, though satiated with holiday feasts, to look back on a year that has been filled with scientific accomplishment.
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Scientists have unlocked the secret to scorpions' ability to withstand sand-blasting, and applied it to man-made materials.
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Researchers have created a nanoscale coating for surgical equipment, hospital walls, and other surfaces which safely eradicates MRSA.
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