Hydrophobia

Well, another typical rainy day here in Thessaloniki. Just got home, soaked in water since i didn't carry an umbrella...

These days make you wish you had future technology clothing in your wardrobe. And especially nanotechnology hydrophobic clothes and shoes.
Olympic games swim athletes, wear swimsuits named fastskin(speedo swimwear) made of material that absorbs a lot less water and in that way water resistance is being reduced, thus making them go faster. But how about a material that never gets wet?
Stefan Seeger, lead researcher at the University of Zurich in 2008 presented a fabric made from polyester fibres coated with millions of tiny silicone filaments, and is the most water-repellent clothing-appropriate material ever created.

image by University of Zurich (Wiley Vch)

"The combination of the hydrophobic surface, chemistry and the nanostructure of the coating, results in the super-hydrophobic effect" Seeger explained to New Scientist magazine. "The water comes to rest on the top of the nanofilaments like a fakir sitting on a bed of nails".


Another invention based on nanotechnology and has to do with hydrophobic ability comes in the form of...a spray bottle!
The following product makes surfaces hydrophobic. I would recommend to turn off the sound (trust me, the music is very annoying!) but the examples shown are very impressive!

Clothes, accessories, shoes that stay dry and clean. Don't need to be washed because they don't get dirty.

If i put my raincoat underwater to soak for two months eventually it would be wet. The uses are limitless but the result is only one. A surface, a fabric, shoes, clothes that never get wet or dirty!

Who needs an umbrella?