{"id":201606,"date":"2024-12-14T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-develop-material-with-almost-perfect-water-repellency"},"modified":"2024-12-14T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:28:12","slug":"scientists-develop-material-with-almost-perfect-water-repellency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-develop-material-with-almost-perfect-water-repellency","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop material with almost perfect water repellency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-material-with-almost-perfect-water-repellency3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a surface material that repels water droplets almost completely. Using an entirely innovative process, they changed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)\u2014artificially designed materials with novel properties\u2014by grafting hydrocarbon chains.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting superhydrophobic (extremely water-repellent) properties are interesting for use as self-cleaning surfaces that need to be robust against environmental influences, such as on automobiles or in architecture. The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/xlink.rsc.org\/?DOI=D4MH00899E\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Materials Horizons.<\/p>\n<p>MOFs (<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal-organic+frameworks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal-organic frameworks<\/a>) are composed of metals and organic linkers that form a network with empty pores resembling a sponge. Their volumetric properties\u2014unfolding two grams of this material would yield the area of a football pitch\u2014make them an interesting material in applications such as gas storage, carbon dioxide separation, or novel medical technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a surface material that repels water droplets almost completely. Using an entirely innovative process, they changed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)\u2014artificially designed materials with novel properties\u2014by grafting hydrocarbon chains. The resulting superhydrophobic (extremely water-repellent) properties are interesting for use as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201606","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}