Superhydrophobic Surface

Electron microscope picture of a nanoturf of narrow posts used to levitate a fluid moving through a small channel.

Diagram of the superhydrophobic surface: the moving liquid sits on the closely-spaced hypdrophobic posts by surface tension. The effectiveness of the drag reduction is measured in terms of the slip length.

Reported by: Choi and Kim in Physical Review Letters

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