Thread: Hydrophobic blades one day ?

Amazing story concerning the laser etching discovery which produces a super hydrophobic surface on metals . The down side is that the process currently take about a hour per square inch. So we probably will not see it on blades anytime soon.

UR Creates Hydrophobic Metals that Bounce Off Water Droplets | The Shore News Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLegmQ8_dHg

Ok that was pretty cool

Thanks for sharing

An understatement, sir.

Wow. That is amazing.

Cool! Rubber water.....

I'm sure it works great until the oxidation (rust) changes the surface texture, then its just plain old rusty steel again.

My son was hydrophobic when he was about 10, took the mangler to get him in the tub…

Very cool use of lasers. Could be a great treatment in aviation on leading edges of wings, props, etc.
Thanks for sharing. Love tech vid's..

Thats fantastic,my first thought was making a small 12 ft fishing boat 90MPH from a 10 horse engine

Imagine how easy it would be to maintain a Stainless Super Hydrophobic Straight. As long as you strop after use you would be good. You would literally only have to maintain the edge.

I hate to break the news to you but Gillette is already ahead of you. Their next model razor will be.....The Super Hydrophobic Laser bot.