{"id":234739,"date":"2026-04-07T02:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/water-repelling-surfaces-reveal-surprising-charging-effects"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:38:09","slug":"water-repelling-surfaces-reveal-surprising-charging-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/water-repelling-surfaces-reveal-surprising-charging-effects","title":{"rendered":"Water-repelling surfaces reveal surprising charging effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-repelling-surfaces-reveal-surprising-charging-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials that repel water are used in countless applications, including industrial separation processes, routine laboratory pipetting, and medical devices. When water touches these surfaces, the interface where they meet tends to acquire a small electrical charge\u2014an effect that is ubiquitous, yet poorly understood. KAUST researchers have now studied this in detail and their findings could have broad implications. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.langmuir.5c05487\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Langmuir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a niche laboratory curiosity,\u201d says Yinfeng Xu, a Ph.D. student who led the experimental work in Himanshu Mishra\u2019s laboratory. \u201cThis phenomenon plays a role in environmental processes such as dew droplets and raindrops; in industrial operations involving sprays, condensates, or emulsions; and in modern microfluidic and liquid-handling systems used in laboratories worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials that repel water are used in countless applications, including industrial separation processes, routine laboratory pipetting, and medical devices. When water touches these surfaces, the interface where they meet tends to acquire a small electrical charge\u2014an effect that is ubiquitous, yet poorly understood. KAUST researchers have now studied this in detail and their findings could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234739","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\/234739","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=234739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}