Navy backs ‘omniphobic’ coatings to help ships travel further

The scientists purposefully bucked conventional wisdom, which would combine the most repellent filler material with an equally durable polymer matrix. Rather, they looked for the best combination. The team combed through “vast” computer databases for chemicals and used equations based on molecular properties to see how the two would behave when mixed together. Significantly, the …

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