{"id":158845,"date":"2023-02-23T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/anti-dust-tech-paves-way-for-self-cleaning-surfaces"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:24:13","slug":"anti-dust-tech-paves-way-for-self-cleaning-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/anti-dust-tech-paves-way-for-self-cleaning-surfaces","title":{"rendered":"Anti-dust tech paves way for self-cleaning surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-dust-tech-paves-way-for-self-cleaning-surfaces3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dust is a common fact of life, and it\u2019s more than just a daily nuisance\u2014it can get into machinery and equipment, causing loss of efficiency or breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin partnered with North Carolina-based company Smart Material Solutions Inc. to develop a new method to keep dust from sticking to surfaces. The result is the ability to make many types of materials dust resistant, from spacecraft to solar panels to household windows.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust is a common fact of life, and it\u2019s more than just a daily nuisance\u2014it can get into machinery and equipment, causing loss of efficiency or breakdowns. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin partnered with North Carolina-based company Smart Material Solutions Inc. to develop a new method to keep dust from sticking to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158845","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}