Research gives clues for self-cleaning materials, water-striding robots

PhysOrg.com May 4, 2009

Self-cleaning walls, counter tops,

fabrics, even micro-
robots that can walk
on water could be
closer to reality
because of research
on super-hydrophobic
materials by scien-
tists at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
and at Japan's RIKEN
institute. Using the
supercomputer at RIKEN (the fastest in the world when the
research started in 2005), the...

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