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MIT Team Create Ketchup Bottle That Pours Like Water

submitted by Grimm

1 decade 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

Any ketchup fan will tell you: Getting that last dollop of the red stuff out of the bottle is a headache - and it normally just ends up in the bin.But now, a radical new bottle design could spell the end of that problem forever.The MIT university team came up with LiquiGlide, a 'super-slippery' coating which makes the insides of the bottle so frictionless that the sludgy goo inside just slides out like water.The results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group spent two months devising a solution.Burger fan Smith said: 'We were really interested in - and still are - using this coating for anti-icing, or for preventing clogs that form in oil and gas lines, or for non-wetting applications like, say, on windshields.'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.'Plus, most of these other applications have a much longer time to market - we realised we could make this coating for bottles that is pretty much ready. I mean, it is ready, as you can see.'We had a limited amount of materials to pick from - I can't say what they are, but we've patented the hell out of i...