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NeverWet: You Can’t Get It Wet!

By on November 14, 2012 in Inventions

Neverwet

Hydrophobic means that something repels water. Oil, for instance, is commons substance that is hydrophobic.

Well, Ross Nanotechnology has developed a super hydrophobic coating that completely repels water and heavy oils. Called NeverWet, any object coated with it literally cannot be touched by liquid. Any liquid placed on this coating is repelled and simply rolls off without touching the underlying surface. Not only is this amazing to see, but it solves a myriad of problems.

The video below needs to be seen to believed.

According to the company, the applications of this technology include:

  • Anti-Wetting Imagine that the cardboard box that you shipped your product in was coated with NeverWet. You wouldn’t have to worry that a lazy UPS driver was going to leave the package out at the curb in the rain
  • Anti-Icing If water can’t stick to an airplane’s wings, ice won’t build up.
  • Anti-Corrosion NeverWet left two carbon steel plates in 1,000 hours of salt fog testing. One was coated with NeverWet, while the other was coasted with polyurethane. After the test, the polyurethane was heavily corroded, while the NeverWet one was not at all. Which coating do you want on your bridges and automobiles?
  • Anti-Bacterial If your toliet plunger repels water, bacteria won’t grow on it between uses.
  • Self Cleaning Dirt is attracted to water, and the NeverWet coating repels water. So if you something coated in NeverWet gets some dirt on it, all it takes to get it off is a little water. The water will grab the dirt and carry it away.
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  • Steve

    I have been reading about this supposed product since early 2011, and the company’s website initially said it would be available for retail consumers in mid-2012. Any idea when/if this is coming out? Your blog, incidentally, has the same video the company put out in 2011.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jason.grosser.9 Jason Grosser

    Yea im with steve. Whats up with them? Ive been waiting all year for this and still nothing?

  • NeverWet is “Vaporware”

    Hello,

    I have to agree with both previous comments.
    First the NeverWet company states a release date for consumers of early or mid 2012, then change the release date to the end of 2012.
    It’s now January 10th 2013 and the only NeverWet consumer item that has been released is a grey toilet plunger made by rubbermaid….
    I’m not going to bother waiting any longer for this “vaporware” product, which I had intended to use on camping gear, boots and outer shell clothing, especially needed for the many rainy Pacific Northwest hiking, snow and camping activities.