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Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon
- kensai 5y agoPotential applications in robotics (if they find ways to make it cheaply)? Direct link to paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1065 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rs...
- birgitt 5y agoWe're commercializing highly repellent, nature-inspired, liquid-infused coatings here: We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/ https://spotlessmaterials.com/ Our tech: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0 What types of pricing do you think would make sense to the robotics community and what types of materials do you typically work with?
- birgitt 5y agoThis is so cool! Liquid-infused coatings and materials often are more slippery than Teflon. I wrote a book chapter with my colleagues about nature-inspired repellent materials: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Y7H2DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA300&dq=info:uOJaQH7-XFQJ:scholar.google.com&ots=e-BB4LoOBV&sig=WhAQnZk_L-YTz4DEDJ1jFK8-g7k http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Y7H2DwAAQBAJ&oi=f... We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/ https://spotlessmaterials.com/