Hydrophobic nanoparticles create fluorine-free, water-repellent cotton with micro- and nanoscale surface textures.

Superhydrophobic materials—often called “never-wet” surfaces—are famous for making water bead up and roll away. They are used ...

What do a non-stick pan, a raincoat and a medical stent have in common? They all have water-repelling properties that resist water uptake or degradation by hydrolysis. Hydrophobicity, the capacity to ...

Superhydrophobic surfaces—those famously "never-wet" materials that make water bead up and roll away—have a stubborn weakness: hot water. Once temperatures climb above roughly 40 degrees Celsius, many ...

A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking Researchers have developed a new ...