Materials scientists create highly water repellant ceramics (w/ video)
Monday, January 21, 2013 - 06:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Researchers at MIT have created several new types of ceramics that all demonstrate a high degree of liquid repellency. All are based, they write in their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, on the oxides of the lanthanides, and unlike most ceramics are extremely hydrophobic.