Tag: Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surfaces

  • Nation & World

    SLIPS inspires second generation

    In a study reported in Nature Biotechnology, a team of Harvard scientists and engineers has developed a new surface coating for medical devices using materials already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The researchers noted that the coating repelled blood from more than 20 medically relevant substrates (glass, plastic, and metal) and also…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Giving slime the slip

    A team of Harvard scientists has developed a slick way to prevent the troublesome biofilms from ever forming on a surface.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Now, ice won’t stick

    A Harvard team of researchers has invented a way to keep any metal surface free of ice and frost. The treated surfaces quickly shed even tiny, incipient condensation droplets or frost, simply through gravity.

    4 minutes