Droplets of water on Lotus Leaf

Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus, Bean of India, or simply Lotus, is a plant in the Nelumbonaceae family called as Nelumbo nucifera. This plant is an aquatic perennial. The leaves may be as large as 60 cm in diameter, while the showy flowers can be up to 20 cm in diameter.

This video shows water droplets falling on Lotus leaves, during the Indian monsoon. The lotus has a strange surface tension oil that completely drains off water, without wetting the surface! This is now being adapted into a new nanotechnology based technology to make wet suits that will not wet the wearer!

This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.

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• nanotechnology
• droplet
• surface tension
• drop
• cohesion
• film
• thin
• surface
• lotus
• water lily
• monsoon rains
• waterfall

[DrMadScientist]

Yay for superhydrophobic surfaces?

[julioacosta123]

make clothes out of lotus leaves!

[nickchiang001]

vsauce.

[Baboonaiih]

Can I get this for happy time ;D

[TheGunshipAC130]

This is really amazing. The water slips right off!