Video – Water Droplet Bouncing On A Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array

By Thursday October 14, 2010

Amazing!



16 Comments
  1. Rob Leather says:
    10/14/2010 at 5:15 am

    Am I the only one to think, yeah amazing… but clearly they have lots of time on their hands?

    What next… three droplets chasing each other? Two droplets juggling? :-)

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  2. LDA says:
    10/14/2010 at 5:44 am

    The ‘merge’ was especially cool.

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  3. Heinrich Moltke says:
    10/14/2010 at 5:44 am

    They ought to use this on the hulls of ships. If it cuts down resistance, it would cut down fuel costs.

    Also, it would be great to use for passively harvesting water vapor. To hell with electrically-powered water-from-air concepts. Just erect the panel, watch it slowly drip.

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  4. J says:
    10/14/2010 at 7:43 am

    Holy shit that is cool!

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  5. oscord says:
    10/14/2010 at 7:52 am

    It would be cool for the urinal lining, I can see the drunks giggling in the washrooms.

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  6. NobodySpecial says:
    10/14/2010 at 8:33 am

    Probably not robust enough for ships. Would be great for microfluidics – it’s tricky to get a drop of water to flow down a 1um tube, or hold a drop of a chemical compound without it touching the sides.

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  7. pedro says:
    10/14/2010 at 8:46 am

    So those carbon nanotubes have rabies. And not any kind of rabis but Superrabies

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  8. Bob says:
    10/14/2010 at 9:18 am

    #3, thats probably a good idea, except it would be the most expensive hull of any ship ever made :) . And of course you would have to make it, which from what I have read we really can’t do in mass quantities yet.

    Still its a promising material. If we can ever get the manufacturing of it perfected, it would revolutionize building. Even that space elevator that people are always fantasizing about suddenly becomes possible.

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  9. JIm says:
    10/14/2010 at 9:22 am

    I want that on my car instead of paint…

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  10. The0ne says:
    10/14/2010 at 11:49 am

    As enjoyable as watching dolphins play with air bubbles underwater :) Love it!

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  11. cgp says:
    10/14/2010 at 1:56 pm

    I think the latest cost for vapor deposition nanotube commercial production is $50,000 per kg or maybe even 100g.

    Mass nanotube reality awaits a large breakthrough. Meanwhile the researchers will play with duped funders.

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  12. Lambo says:
    10/14/2010 at 2:59 pm

    So, I’m guessing the remake of “Old Yeller” will now be called “Old Carbon Nanotube Array On Flexible Substrate”? “It’s got the superhydrophobie!”

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  13. Joe says:
    10/14/2010 at 3:02 pm

    Give me back my 30 seconds.

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  14. Dallas says:
    10/15/2010 at 4:25 am

    Now we know what duck feathers are made of!

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  15. pedro says:
    10/15/2010 at 6:08 am

    #14 I always knew you were that smart.

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  16. Spudboy says:
    10/17/2010 at 9:29 pm

    Can I get that 2 minutes back of my life wasted watching this video?

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