{"id":98131,"date":"2019-11-04T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/be-the-first-to-comment-on-quantum-destabilization-of-a-water-sandwich-laws-of-classical-physics-break-down"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:42:43","slug":"be-the-first-to-comment-on-quantum-destabilization-of-a-water-sandwich-laws-of-classical-physics-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/be-the-first-to-comment-on-quantum-destabilization-of-a-water-sandwich-laws-of-classical-physics-break-down","title":{"rendered":"Be the first to comment on \u201cQuantum Destabilization of a Water Sandwich \u2013 Laws of Classical Physics Break Down\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/be-the-first-to-comment-on-quantum-destabilization-of-a-water-sandwich-laws-of-classical-physics-break-down2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From raindrops rolling off the waxy surface of a waterlily leaf, to the efficiency of desalination membranes, interactions between water molecules and water-repellent \u201chydrophobic\u201d surfaces are all around us. The interplay becomes even more intriguing when a thin water layer becomes sandwiched between two hydrophobic surfaces, KAUST researchers have shown.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1980s, researchers first noted an unexpected effect when two hydrophobic surfaces were slowly brought together in water. \u201cAt some point, the two surfaces would suddenly jump into contact\u2014like two magnets being brought together,\u201d says Himanshu Mishra from KAUST\u2019s Water Desalination and Reuse Center. Mishra\u2019s lab investigates water at all length scales, from reducing water consumption in agriculture, to the properties of individual water molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From raindrops rolling off the waxy surface of a waterlily leaf, to the efficiency of desalination membranes, interactions between water molecules and water-repellent \u201chydrophobic\u201d surfaces are all around us. The interplay becomes even more intriguing when a thin water layer becomes sandwiched between two hydrophobic surfaces, KAUST researchers have shown. In the early 1980s, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98131","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}