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Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. They have achieved a "nearly perfect hydrophobic interface" by reproducing, on small bits of flat plastic, the shape and patterns of the minute hairs that grow on the bodies of spiders.
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Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. They have achieved a "nearly perfect hydrophobic interface" by reproducing, on small bits of flat plastic, the shape and patterns of the minute hairs that grow on the bodies of spiders.
