Water repelling metal

Post by **numbnuts240** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:21 pm

researchers at the university of rochester first created a metal finish that allowed water to more freely move across its surface, even flowing up an incline. now they've created the opposite, all with laser etching. pretty cool

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/2 ... 16318.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD7gr1N ... yRochester[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLegmQ8_ ... yRochester[/youtube]

Post by **Ace2cool** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:00 pm

Oooooh, oooooh, submarine technology! I really wanna know if/how this could be implemented to speed up subs. Cool stuff.