{"id":85575,"date":"2018-12-07T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gecko-inspired-nanofiber-carpet-could-lead-to-superpower-coatings"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:02:46","slug":"gecko-inspired-nanofiber-carpet-could-lead-to-superpower-coatings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gecko-inspired-nanofiber-carpet-could-lead-to-superpower-coatings","title":{"rendered":"Gecko-inspired nanofiber \u2018carpet\u2019 could lead to superpower coatings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gecko-inspired-nanofiber-carpet-could-lead-to-superpower-coatings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way to make arrays of nanofibers that gets its inspiration from polar bear fur, lotus leaves, and gecko feet could lead to coatings that are sticky, repellant, insulating, or light emitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so removed from anything I\u2019ve ever seen that I would have thought it was impossible,\u201d says Joerg Lahann, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan and senior author of the paper, which appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aar8449\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polar bear hairs are structured to let light in while keeping heat from escaping. Water-repelling lotus leaves are coated with arrays of microscopic waxy tubules. And the nanoscale hairs on the bottoms of gravity-defying gecko feet get so close to other surfaces that atomic forces of attraction come into play.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/nanofibers-coatings-biomimicry-1926882-2\/\">https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/nanofibers-coatings-biomimicry-1926882&#45;2\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to make arrays of nanofibers that gets its inspiration from polar bear fur, lotus leaves, and gecko feet could lead to coatings that are sticky, repellant, insulating, or light emitting. \u201cThis is so removed from anything I\u2019ve ever seen that I would have thought it was impossible,\u201d says Joerg Lahann, a professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}