{"id":113032,"date":"2020-09-15T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/fish-seaweed-inspire-slippery-surfaces-for-ships"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:26:19","slug":"fish-seaweed-inspire-slippery-surfaces-for-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/fish-seaweed-inspire-slippery-surfaces-for-ships","title":{"rendered":"Fish, seaweed inspire slippery surfaces for ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fish-seaweed-inspire-slippery-surfaces-for-ships3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long-distance cargo ships lose a significant amount of energy due to fluid friction. Looking to the drag reduction mechanisms employed by aquatic life can provide inspiration on how to improve efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Fish and seaweed secrete a layer of mucus to create a slippery surface, reducing their friction as they travel through water. A potential way to mimic this is by creating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lubricant\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lubricant<\/a>-infused surfaces covered with cavities. As the cavities are continuously filled with the lubricant, a layer is formed over the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Though this method has previously been shown to work, reducing drag by up to 18%, the underlying physics is not fully understood. In the journal <i>Physics of Fluids<\/i>, researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Pohang University of Science and Technology conducted simulations of this process to help explain the effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-distance cargo ships lose a significant amount of energy due to fluid friction. Looking to the drag reduction mechanisms employed by aquatic life can provide inspiration on how to improve efficiency. Fish and seaweed secrete a layer of mucus to create a slippery surface, reducing their friction as they travel through water. A potential way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}