Superhydrophobic Desktop Hockey

[sanin92]

hAHAHAHAHAH i love this you guys are great i love 2.333 to 2.667 HAHAHA too dam funnny

[damondarkhart]

So what if you have an entire table top with the coating, a layer of mist (probably have to run a fog machine to keep water present) and glide another such surface on top of that? Would it float on the water "beads" or push them out of the way?

[offtheclockIMM]

DOI: 10.1002/anie.200604596

[Grundalizer]

anyone have the title or DOI of the journal article

[baguazhang2]

A superhydrophobic substance will have a log(octanol/water) coefficient of at least 6 or higher, probably around 8 or higher actually. There are a bunch of substances like this, and if you start with looking at these log(Kow) values you should find your chemicals.

[TaZnDaffz]

lmao u idiots saying its grease or oil -__-.... its a hydrophobic substance like those on plant and grass leaves or feathers of certain birds.

[Wolfenkuni]

Hey I will make this as a video game. Thesimulation is nearly running, however I need some supercomputers to play

[LoneWolfOnTheHeights]

@Wolfenkuni cheeky bastard lol

[KillerKabel]

The next step? Scaling this up for people to play. How? No clue.

[Indopestyleia]

this video was good

comment me back OX

[Bugstomper2]

Grease on the surface?

[kefsound]

@Bugstomper2: lol

[Bugstomper2]

Oil on the surface?

[0marius0]

what did you put on that surface?

[plarkmoby]

You should make a tiny superhydrophobic table top football game. With wee little footballers on sticks.

[carbonandnanotube]

Hi, All, would you like to tell me how I can download this movie? It is really fantastic.

[lilchick34]

save it to your favorites...

[monkeylover009]

I see Iains as good as desktop hockey as he is at filling a salt bridge!

[davetwocombs]

Tacky McSad, I mean Rocky music? PREEEEEEEEEEEE-DICTABLE! Goodness i would have given yous more credit for originiality. Every pseudo-sport of the 'we're cool, honest :\' variety uses it, how very 1997. And it always proves sad. Yep water droplets, hahaha yep they move. great.

[offtheclockIMM]

Thank you for your measured comments. Unfortunately I fear you have missed the point somewhat (not to mention the irony!) Our soundtrack really is inconsequential when the implications of this technology are considered. I assume you are not familiar with the field of wetting so I'll excuse the "yep they move. great" comment. A quick browse of the 17800 google results for "superhydrophobicity" should go some way to convince you that to a substantial number of people it is, in fact, great.

[offtheclockIMM]

PS: If you would like more information i'm sure the authors would be more than happy to forward you a copy of the recent Angewandte paper.

[davetwocombs]

Sorry for my scathing comments. Had just one too many Rocky theme tunes. I find it endearing, the zeal with which you defend your experiment. I am sure it is impressive.. but entertaining? If you wish to be (YouTube) peer approved then take it from a layman, your experiment is impressive, but choice of soundtrack detracts from it!

[Charginasaur]

way to use a thesaurus jackass... you KNOW offtheclockimm pwned the shit outta you

[davetwocombs]

actually, i didn't write that because i was convinced of the science; frankly, it bores me. My girlfriend, who studies Chemistry, showed it to me and I judged it on its lameness. Having agreed with me, she affirmed that despite this the science is still impressive and i decided to apologise to the endearing C3PO look-alike for being so harsh. As for "way to use a thesaurus" What are you talking about? I'm a PhD student in English Literature.

[davetwocombs]

Sorry again for being nasty. All the best.

[darkstarsara]

LOL thats amusing.

[15098036]

amazing! blows those other hydrophobic videos out of the water :)