Lubricant found in a beetle's leg is more slippery than Teflon (newscientist.com) 20 points by kensai 5y ago ↗ HN
[–] kensai 5y ago ↗ Potential applications in robotics (if they find ways to make it cheaply)? Direct link to paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rs... [–] birgitt 5y ago ↗ We're commercializing highly repellent, nature-inspired, liquid-infused coatings here: We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/Our tech: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0What 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 ago ↗ We're commercializing highly repellent, nature-inspired, liquid-infused coatings here: We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/Our tech: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0What 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 ago ↗ This 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=f...We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 21.0 ms ] threadOur tech: 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?
I wrote a book chapter with my colleagues about nature-inspired repellent materials: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Y7H2DwAAQBAJ&oi=f...
We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/