Ever Dry? Never Shy | National Geographic

contender number one mark Shaw and ultra
ever dry Ultra ever dry is super
hydrophobic meaning that it repels water
far beyond what you’re normally used to
Ultra ever dry adheres to any surface
and creates a microscopic barrier of air
so when you pour liquid onto it those
air pockets repel the fluid by never
allowing it to actually touch the
surface so even when an object is fully
submerged it comes out bone-dry it’s new
technology and it’s something that’s
going to make things a lot better to use
and no matter how much water they throw
at us it’s just gonna keep throwing it
right back at them
gentlemen I’ve been dying to talk about
super hydrophobic materials for a long
time and finally we get our chance what
is super hydrophobic mean super
hydrophobic basically means that it
creates a low surface energy that will
create a water droplet with a angle of
greater than 150 degrees stop super low
surface energy energy let me just show
it to you instead of trying to explain
it so this would be a normal sister
that’s not coated and you can pour water
in there it’s gonna just make a mess and
go right through okay so that’s Cola
that you just pour polish chatter all
right
know what’s gonna happen here what’s
gonna happen is that the Ultra ever dry
is not gonna allow the cola to go
through and you can see that we can
actually move around in there and it is
showing how water resistant and water
repelling zone material can be that it
even turns something that’s designed to
allow water to flow through it and how
actually holds the water