Laundry Detergent Slides off Polycarbonate (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

Laundry Detergent Slides off Polycarbonate

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Laundry detergent spreads out on a piece of normal polycarbonate (left), but flows off a piece of treated polycarbonate in a steady stream (right). Engineers at The Ohio State University have invented a coating that lets soap flow out of plastic bottles more easily.

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Composite image from video by Philip S. Brown, courtesy of The Ohio State University.

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