{"id":644641,"date":"2013-02-28T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T00:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=70163"},"modified":"2013-02-28T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T00:23:15","slug":"a-dry-yet-astonishing-demo-mark-shaw-at-ted2013-with-animated-gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644641","title":{"rendered":"A dry yet astonishing demo: Mark Shaw at TED2013 (with animated gif)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_71814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71814\" alt=\"Photo: James Duncan Davidson\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0061366_d41_1600.jpg?w=900&#038;h=553\" width=\"900\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: James Duncan Davidson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Imagine driving through a downpour and coming out with a dry car.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Shaw produces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spillcontainment.com\/\" >Ultra Ever-Dry<\/a>, a liquid-repellent coating that may sound mundane but makes for one astonishing demo. The superhydrophobic coating acts as a shield against pretty much any liquids. When the coating is applied to a surface, it coats it with nanoparticles, which are, surprisingly, not super-smooth but rough and craggy. The spaces between the crags grab onto air particles so that a layer of air now covers the entire surface, and whatever hits the surface &#8212; dirt, oil, paint &#8212; just bounces right off. The applications are endless: anti-wetting, anti-icing, anti-corrosion, anti-bacterial, self-cleaning, the list goes on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71817\" alt=\"GIF by Lil Chen Photos: James Duncan Davidson\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/paintgif.gif?w=900\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GIF by Lil Chen<br \/>Photos: James Duncan Davidson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=xo93WhfFdrU\" >Watch Ultra Ever-Dry in action \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70163\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70163\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=70163&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/uWbjjTQeAzs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: James Duncan Davidson Imagine driving through a downpour and coming out with a dry car. Mark Shaw produces Ultra Ever-Dry, a liquid-repellent coating that may sound mundane but makes for one astonishing demo. The superhydrophobic coating acts as a shield against pretty much any liquids. When the coating is applied to a surface, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}