We have all gone to an airport on a frisky December days just before christmas to visit your grandma and have had the flight delayed several hours because of frozen wings. Just as P2i uses nano-coatings to keep a phone functioning under water, GE attempts use water repellent properties to solve this airport nightmare. GE also attempts to achieve the same results and effects as what P2i uses for phone with a different technique.
The scientist at GE looked at the Lotus Leaf. They observed that even if the water was muddy around the leaf, the leaf itself still looked clean and glossy. How does it do this?
As the picture says, the lotus leaf is covered with "hair-like nano-structures that prevent [a] liquid from hitting the leaf surface"
This in turn projects the property of being hydrophobic, or water repellent.
What the scientist hope to do is to make a replica of this, and use the resulting nano-coating as a solution to keep airplane wings from freezing.
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| Airplane being De-iced |
The scientist at GE looked at the Lotus Leaf. They observed that even if the water was muddy around the leaf, the leaf itself still looked clean and glossy. How does it do this?
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| hair like nano-structures |
This in turn projects the property of being hydrophobic, or water repellent.
What the scientist hope to do is to make a replica of this, and use the resulting nano-coating as a solution to keep airplane wings from freezing.
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| Lotus leaf effect |
If the scientist succeed in their quest to make and anti-freeze nano-coating, and if they are able to mass produce it, we may never again have to wait in airplane for it to be de-iced.
(GE Central Research Laboratory)
(GE Central Research Laboratory)
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