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Date of publication: 4 January 2008
MIT engineers electrospin new oil-repelling materials
A droplet of water forms a bead on the surface of a lotus top left, while a drop of hexadecane soaks the surface, top right. After the lotus leaf is coated with a new oil-repelling material developed at MIT, water still beads up, bottom left, and so does hexadecane, bottom right. Inset photo in the top left square shows an SEM micrograph of the lotus leaf surface. Image courtesy Anish Tuteja and Wonjae Choi, MIT
Materials that can repel oils and could have many applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup have been developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
