A hydrophobic surface will cause water and oil to almost be repelled by the surface. What is happening is a small layer of air is trapped on the surface because of how the nano-particle structures that form the coating are laid out.
Possible Applications and Uses
- Clothing
- Coat
- Footwear
- Gloves
- Suit
- Hat
- Face mask
- Shirts
- Baby clothes
- Baby stuff
- Socks
- Tie
- Swimming suit
- Glasses
- Goggles
- Visors
- Touch surfaces
- Vehicles
- Windows
- Rain
- Ice
- Sap
- Pop
- Fog
- Metal panels
- Underside of vehicle
- Car upholstery
- Side mirrors
- Head and tail lights
- Suspension
- Tires
- Roof liner
- Windows
- Camera
- Tables
- Civilian
- Restaurants
- Cafeteria
- Meeting tables
- Desk
- Furniture
- Inside
- Couch
- Recliner
- Dinner table seats
- Office chair
- Outside
- Patio furniture
- Swing be
- Machinery
- Inside
- Counter top
- Toilet
- Bowl – video
- Seat
- Portable toilet seat covers to sit on
- Shower
- Curtain
- Wall
- Basin
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Flooring
- Carpet – video
- Wood
- No moving part pump
- Metal structures for corrosion and rust prevention
- Bridges
- Anti-icing
- Airplane wings
- Electrical grid components
- Machinery
- Bicycle
- Seat
- Handle grips
- Motorcycle
- Seat
- Handle grips
- Tires
- Frame
- Windshield
- Bench
- Camping chairs
- Camping gear
- Sleeping bag – video
- Tents
- Umbrella – video
- Circuit board
- Boat
- Hull for water shedding and corrosion resistance – video
- Window
- Seating
- Don’t run on concrete warning for around swimming pools
- Sidewalks
- Public along roads
- Private walkways to doors like hotels
- Parking lots
- Roads
- Gunk build up prevention
- Medical
- Rust protection
- Building urination deterrent
- Oil protection
- Mirror fog preventative
- Solar panels for rust protection
- Self cleaning building
- Graffiti and mud resistant signs
- RC (Protects against damage from water bodies, mud, rain, etc.)
- Car
- Plane
- Helicopter
- Multirotor (e.g. quadcopter)
- Wallet
- Purse
- Backpack
- Satchels and other man bag types
- Business card
- Toys such as dry sand
- Air to liquid barrier allowing air to be passed into the gas field
- Vents in electronic or mechanical assemblies that are open to rain areas can have a wire mesh coated so that air can escape but rain can’t enter
- Lunchbox
- Briefcase
- Diving suits
- Raincoats
- Equipment and clothing that gets dragged into sewers
- Waterproof speakers
- Protects wood
- Fences
- Sculptures
- Stone
- Patio / Deck
- Outside steps
- Outdoor blow up yard ornaments such as large pumpkin for Halloween
- Lights
- Stove tops
- Leather
- Suede
- Fur
- Sheepskin
- Swings
- Slides
- Video game console and controllers
- Pool tables – Prevent damage at bars and clubs
- Bar and club surfaces
- Paint trays
- Paintbrush handles
- Pottery and clay forming equipment
- Cardboard boxes
- Fanny pack
- Non-wetting pillow filling
- Dry catwalk
- Clean delivery trucks
- Wind turbines blade ice prevention
- Child toys to protect from liquid damage
- Protects against surfaces forming containment deposits – anti fouling
- Self cleaning surfaces that let water or other fluid flow over the surface and take away particles – video
- Statues made from metal or other water damaged material
- Hunting gear
- Band gear and instruments
- Job uniforms
- Police
- Medical
- Mechanics
- Food industry
- Basement waterproofing
- Reduced fluid friction pipes for improved pipe delivered fluids – video
- Driveway ice prevention – video
- Dentures
- Anti-water lens – video
- Toilet brush – video
- Plunger – video
- Pet pooper scooper
- Litter box insides
- Sink
- Bathroom floors, walls, ceilings
- Commercial (e.g. gas stations, schools)
- Fluid artwork
- Satellite dishes and antennae
- Construction
- Electric power tools
- Equipment
- Vehicles
- Interior walls in homes
- Bathroom mirror
- Baby stuff
- Carrier
- Stroller
- Bib
- High chair
- Apron
- Cusions
- Pillows
- Bedding
- Bath robe
- Canopies and awnings
- Dog bed
- Tablecloth
- Place-mat
- Oven mitts
- Pot holders
- Motorcycle gear
- Hunting and Fishing gear
- Hiking and Camping gear
- Athletic gear
- Gym equipment
- Luggage
- Carpets and rugs
- Camper/RV/Bus interior
- Paper maps
- Vehicle trunk
- Vehicle floor mats and floorboard
- Curtains and drapes
- Bed skirt
- Bed duvet
- Bed padding
- Bed liner (good for people that pee bed)
- Cabinet doors and things in reach of babies and toddlers around the house
- Bottom 12 inches or so of an interior building wall to keep water from creating flood damage to the structure
- Electrical outlets in walls and electronic devices so that it rejects water vs sucking it into the cracks by surface tension
- Electrical plug ends but not the prongs
- Seam edges on wood boxes or other containers to prevent moisture from being able to move through the cracks
- Eyeglass
- Nose piece
- Lenses – video and webpage
- Tool handles
- Always dry handles so no slipping accidents happen
- No need to clean it before it gets put away because it doesn’t have a dirty handle
- Concrete troughs that catch animal waste matter and other gross things in it for transport to a different location
- Walkway surfaces on large mining truck type of machines to prevent water, ice, mud, and oil buildup
- Use a cloth coated membrane to suck air out of water?
- Fabric shopping bags
- Duffle bags
- Fan blades and casings to keep them dust free
- Kayak and Canoe paddles – video
- Headphones and cord
- Oven hood outside
- Dirt bikes
- Mudding Trucks
- Go kart
- Lawn mowers
- Outside and underside
- Riding and push
- 4 Wheeler
- Skateboard
- Roller blades
- Roller skates
- Scooter
- Fridge and freezer surfaces
- Shelves
- Ceiling fan blades
- Inside of large outside track bins
- Skis
- Snowboards
- Surf board
- Beach fun products
- Mud guards
- Wheel well
- Condensation buildup surfaces
- Cups
- Cans
- Animal stalls
- Shower glass doors
- Infused with paint or materials
- Food cooler inside and outside
- Lunchbox inside and outside
- Railings
- Rails
- Route water around hard to seal seams
- Food and liquid containers* (*liquid impregnated … not exactly superhydrophobic) – videos | website
- Ketchup
- Honey
- Mayonnaise
- Glue
- Insecticide
- Lotion
- Nail polish
- Jelly
- Peanut butter
- Jam
- Pipelines buildup prevention and resistance decrease – link
- Water
- Oil
- Gas
- Food syrup
- Medical
- Intubation tube
- Draining tube
- Catheter tube
- Improve condenser efficiency – link
- Improve desalination efficiency
- Detergent container
- Toothpaste tube
- Dish soap container
- Hand soap container
- Bicycle tires
- Food container valves
- Artwork
- Lab equipment
- Water – video
- Wedding clothes
- Wallet
- Toilet bowl – Never have to get crap stains or any other nastiness in the toilet bowl. This means you don’t have to clean the toilet anymore.
- Toilet seat – This is great because now you will never get poop or period stains on the toilet seat. It also means it will never have piss on it that you have to clean up before sitting down.
- Toilet seat cover – You could make a toilet seat cover out of superhydrophobic canvas material that a person can carry around with them. Since it can’t get oils or anything on it, that means it is going to be sterile and easy to carry around without the worry of poop or pee staining it. This means you get a very robust, clean, and easy to use toilet seat cover for anywhere you are going.
- Shower curtain – Now you won’t have soap scum or anything else building up on your shower curtain.
- Umbrella – It isn’t a good time getting a wet umbrella in out of the rain. You get all wet and so do all the things that are in the area of your umbrella you are using. So a waterproof version would be dry 100% of the time and always be good to go for putting away and for walking around in the water.
- Tents – Silicone spray is great but it doesn’t make a tent waterproof. A waterproof tent that breathes is a great thing and allows for a dry repacking of the tent.
- Car windows – Windshield wipers are not great very often and it would just be nice to have the water not build up at all. RainX does somewhat coat the glass to bead up water more but an actual hydrophobic spray would be best. It won’t allow the formation of ice in the winter. It won’t need the wipers on to see in the rain as the water will just more or less go away off the glass.
- Car body – Hydrophobic sprays tend to be salt proof as well which is nice. This means that a car body coated in a hydrophobic coating would prevent rusting, dirt buildup, oil and tar buildup, and other various types of grime and decay.
- Sink – A sink would never get dirty or oily which is an easy clean up.
- Keyboard and mouse – these two things get very oily and dirty from the oil on a persons hands as well as the dust that is floating around in the air. A surface that wouldn’t gather that stuff would allow for very clean environments. This is great for home and enterprise levels.
- Footwear – Having dry feet is essential to having warm feet in the snowy and slushy environments. So being able to waterproof any type of boot or shoe is going to make the footwear almost of magical level usages.
- Clothing – Can you imagine being able to go paintballing in your business suit and go to work right after because the paintballs and anything else that stains or is dirty can’t stick to the cloth used in the suit? Now that is an amazing time and that time is now. Companies are making business suits from hydrophobic fabrics. Some companies are making shirts and pants out of it as well.
- Gloves and coats – In the winter, gloves and coats are another massively big thing to be superhydrophobic because snow melting can cause you to get very cold and have ice form and this is not something you want in freezing temperatures.
- Eyeglasses – If you wear glasses you are most likely aware of how dirty and oily glasses get. The oil comes from our eyes squirting little droplets of eye goop and our hands when we try to clean the glasses and our face when we fall asleep into our glasses. The dirt just is floating around and sometimes is a side effect of particles that were dispersed like flour or pepper or dandruff. Not having to ever clean your glasses again would be amazing and improve vision overall because you wouldn’t have vision impediments from dirty glasses ever.
- Bridges – Bridge metal tends to corrode and rust away because of the humidity in the air. The paint tends to be eaten off by the sun and bird poop. Being able to robustly coat a bridge would allow for corrosion protection that the world has never seen before. This would allow us to stop having bad bridges and structures and start building the future instead of repairing the past.
- Airplane wings – Ice tends to build up on wings in the cold environments which prevents flights from happening. Ice on wings can form during flight as well which can cause a plane to crash. Being able to coat the wings in a hydrophobic surface would prevent ice build up from being possible which means you are able to fly all the time.
- Electronics – Waterproofing electronics is a good idea if you want to add a robust trait / property to your electronic devices. Power can be transmitted via electromagnetic resonance and I assume batteries will be done like this in the future due to low losses and high value trait ratio. (waterproof electronic devices)
- TV Screen – Not having finger smudges on a TV ever again would be nice and a superhydrophobic coating would allow you to have just that.