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- noun The quality of being extremely
hydrophobic orrepellent towater or of not being wetted.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The researchers, professor Orlin Velev and graduate student researcher Vinayak Rastogi at North Carolina State University, made the jewel-like formation by allowing nanoparticles mixed into a solution to dry on a surface that repels water like the plague, a characteristic known as superhydrophobicity.
Material World: Stacking Nanoparticles with Jewel-like Results Tracy Staedter 2008
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The researchers, professor Orlin Velev and graduate student researcher Vinayak Rastogi at North Carolina State University, made the jewel-like formation by allowing nanoparticles mixed into a solution to dry on a surface that repels water like the plague, a characteristic known as superhydrophobicity.
Material World: Nanomaterials Tracy Staedter 2008
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"We call this effect 'superhydrophobicity,'" said Brookhaven physicist Benjamin Ocko.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.
Science Blog 2010
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The latter case is exactly what happens here when they achieve superhydrophobicity.
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This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.
innovations-report 2010
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Research in superhydrophobicity recently accelerated with a letter that reported man-made superhydrophobic samples produced by allowing alkylketene dimer (AKD) to solidify into a nanostructured fractal surface.
Next Big Future 2009
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Research in superhydrophobicity recently accelerated with a letter that reported man-made superhydrophobic samples produced by allowing alkylketene dimer (AKD) to solidify into a nanostructured fractal surface.
Next Big Future 2009
hernesheir commented on the word superhydrophobicity
The lotus effect.
April 25, 2011