{"id":233952,"date":"2026-03-24T03:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/one-step-coating-keeps-fabrics-superhydrophobic-after-tens-of-thousands-of-abrasion-cycles"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:27:25","slug":"one-step-coating-keeps-fabrics-superhydrophobic-after-tens-of-thousands-of-abrasion-cycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/one-step-coating-keeps-fabrics-superhydrophobic-after-tens-of-thousands-of-abrasion-cycles","title":{"rendered":"One-step coating keeps fabrics superhydrophobic after tens of thousands of abrasion cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-step-coating-keeps-fabrics-superhydrophobic-after-tens-of-thousands-of-abrasion-cycles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developing robust water-repellent textiles is critical for outdoor, protective, and industrial applications. However, achieving long-lasting water repellency under mechanical stress has been a major challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research team led by Prof. Dong Zhichao from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new one-step fabrication strategy\u2014termed MARS (Molecularly Assembled Robust Superhydrophobic Shell)\u2014for producing superhydrophobic fabrics with stable mechanical performance under harsh conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-026-70857-7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a> on March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing robust water-repellent textiles is critical for outdoor, protective, and industrial applications. However, achieving long-lasting water repellency under mechanical stress has been a major challenge. Now, a research team led by Prof. Dong Zhichao from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new one-step fabrication strategy\u2014termed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233952","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}