{"id":226686,"date":"2025-12-07T21:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/walking-water-discovery-on-2d-material-could-lead-to-better-anti-icing-coatings-and-energy-materials"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:07:47","slug":"walking-water-discovery-on-2d-material-could-lead-to-better-anti-icing-coatings-and-energy-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/walking-water-discovery-on-2d-material-could-lead-to-better-anti-icing-coatings-and-energy-materials","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Walking\u2019 water discovery on 2D material could lead to better anti-icing coatings and energy materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/walking-water-discovery-on-2d-material-could-lead-to-better-anti-icing-coatings-and-energy-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A surprising discovery about how water behaves on one of the world\u2019s thinnest 2D materials could lead to major technological improvements, from better anti-icing coatings for aircraft and self-cleaning solar panels to next-generation lubricants and energy materials.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-65452-1\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, researchers from the University of Surrey and Graz University of Technology tested two ultra-thin sheet-like materials with a honeycomb structure\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-physicists-quantum-platform.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">graphene<\/a> and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). While graphene is electrically conductive\u2014making it a key contender for future electronics, sensors and batteries\u2014h-BN, often called \u201cwhite graphite,\u201d is a high-performance ceramic material and electrical insulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising discovery about how water behaves on one of the world\u2019s thinnest 2D materials could lead to major technological improvements, from better anti-icing coatings for aircraft and self-cleaning solar panels to next-generation lubricants and energy materials. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Surrey and Graz University of Technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226686","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=226686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}