Sentences with phrase «material repels water»

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The material is a high - quality stain resistant material that repels water and dirt.

The best diaper bags are now designed to repel water and stains irrespective of the material used.

Most often the materials used in the best waterproof backpacks are known to repel water.

That's one potential application for a new technology that combines water - repelling yet light - sensitive and water - absorbing materials into polymeric nano - reactors for creating photo - responsive gold nanoparticles.

Their secret, which turns out to be related to their water - repelling properties, could be applied to building frost - repelling materials.

To copy the beetle's water - collecting design, materials scientist Michael Rubner, chemical engineer Robert Cohen, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge created a rough coating so water repelling — or hydrophobic — that water sprayed onto it stood up in nearly spherical droplets.

Troy, N.Y., - based Ecovative Design is testing the ability of its Greensulate — a sustainable building material made from mushroom fibers, rice hulls and recycled paper — to resist temperature change, stop fire and repel water in accordance with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International standards.

The new oleic acid coating is inherently hydrophobic, repelling water and any pollutants, and it allows the material to react to temperature fluctuations naturally.

«Nice ice, maybe: Study finds water - repelling surfaces ease ice removal: Findings could inform design of anti-ice coatings, materials.»

The viscosity differences created by container materials are directly affected by the degree to which the materials are either hydrophilic — which means they attract water — or hydrophobic — which means they repel it.

But few teams have studied how flexible structures such as hair affect a material's ability to repel water, says Alice Nasto.

### The research team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at IoMaterials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iomaterials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State.

The material can rapidly swell up to eight times its original size, absorbing small organic toxins into itself but repelling water.

The university explains, «The researchers created a filter coating that repels oil but attracts water, bucking conventional materials» properties.