A team led by applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
of the University
of Cambridge, U.K., discovered that the wax is extremely
water - repellant: Water droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of n
water - repellant:
Water droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of n
Water droplets float on top
of the needle tips much as ascetics
rest on beds
of nails.