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superhydrophobicity

Definitions

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  • noun The quality of being extremely hydrophobic or repellent to water or of not being wetted.

Etymologies

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From super- +‎ hydro- +‎ phobic +‎ -ity.

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Examples

  • The researchers, professor Orlin Velev and graduate student researcher Vinayak Rastogi at North Carolina State University, made the jewel-like formation by allowing nanoparticles mixed into a solution to dry on a surface that repels water like the plague, a characteristic known as superhydrophobicity.

    Material World: Stacking Nanoparticles with Jewel-like Results Tracy Staedter 2008

  • The researchers, professor Orlin Velev and graduate student researcher Vinayak Rastogi at North Carolina State University, made the jewel-like formation by allowing nanoparticles mixed into a solution to dry on a surface that repels water like the plague, a characteristic known as superhydrophobicity.

    Material World: Nanomaterials Tracy Staedter 2008

  • "We call this effect 'superhydrophobicity,'" said Brookhaven physicist Benjamin Ocko.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.

    Science Blog 2010

  • The latter case is exactly what happens here when they achieve superhydrophobicity.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • This superhydrophobicity holds at all pH levels, so anything coated with it would be protected from even the strongest acids and alkalies.

    innovations-report 2010

  • Research in superhydrophobicity recently accelerated with a letter that reported man-made superhydrophobic samples produced by allowing alkylketene dimer (AKD) to solidify into a nanostructured fractal surface.

    Next Big Future 2009

  • Research in superhydrophobicity recently accelerated with a letter that reported man-made superhydrophobic samples produced by allowing alkylketene dimer (AKD) to solidify into a nanostructured fractal surface.

    Next Big Future 2009

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