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Superhydrophobic finger in water looks cool

submitted by smiley

1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago

By rubbing your finger with superhydrophobic aerogel powder you can make it superhydrophobic. Then, when sticking the finger into water no water droplet will stick on the finger. All water is completely repelled. A thin air layer forms between the finger and the water. This makes the finger shining silvery and looking cool.At the end of the video you can see the difference between the non-powdered part of the finger and the part of the finger which is superhydrophobic. More at http://www.innomats.com or http://innomats.blogspot.com.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'superhydrophobic, water, finger' to 'superhydrophobic, water, finger, hydrophobic, waterproof' - edited by lucky760

Can you buy this stuff? It would be fun to do this.

Porksandwich says...

Watching someone finger water...... deeper and deeper.

Just needs a soundtrack.

So how do you clean it off?

http://xkcd.com/1082/

>> ^Porksandwich:

Watching someone finger water...... deeper and deeper.
Just needs a soundtrack.

So if I cover my wang in this stuff I won't get stds?
And if I cover myself in it I can run on water?
Can you imagine water-skipping stones cover in this?

This can't be healthy. Imagine if these nano particles made it inside the blood stream.

Zaibach says...

>> ^nomino:

This can't be healthy. Imagine if these nano particles made it inside the blood stream.

It's risky, but it's another way of becoming a Superhero/villain.

00Scud00 says...

No riskier than lethally high doses of gamma radiation or being bitten by radioactive spiders I suppose.
Walking through a rain storm covered in the stuff would be interesting, I could imagine a spray-on umbrella would be pretty cool.

Reminds me of the Diving Bell Spider.

>> ^nomino:

Imagine if these nano particles made it inside the blood stream.

I'm trying to, but I'm not sure I can.

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