A new transparent, bio-inspired coating makes ordinary glass tough, self-cleaning, and incredibly slippery, a team from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) reported online in the July 31 edition of Nature Communications.
Research by Indiana University environmental scientists shows that air-pollution-removal technology used in "self-cleaning" paints and building surfaces may actually cause more problems than they solve.
Nano Labs Corp. announced the development of a new self-cleaning paint that degrades pollutants through a proprietary nanoparticle compound and natural light.
Eyeglasses need never again to be cleaned, and dirty windscreens are a thing of the past. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, and the Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, are now much closer to achieving this goal.
