| Self-Cleaning Surfaces Repels Fluids
It's raining cats and dogs and even the short run out to the car leaves your vision obscured by rain on your spectacles. But precisely what characterizes surfaces that do the very best job of cleaning themselves? Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg have now developed simulation software that offers the answers. The practicality of such self-cleaning surfaces is not limited to eyewear. The program simulates the form the liquid droplets take on the surface, indicating whether the liquid distributes itself over the surface, or contracts to form droplets in order to minimize contact with the surface. |
Friday 8 June 2012
Self-Cleaning Surfaces Repels Fluids
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