shark skin battle ships


	shark skin battle ships

zadoz

11-12-2009 4:21 AM

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navy, ships, paint, sharks

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new hull coatings for Navy ships based on the substance, which should cut fuel use and protect the environmen

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d656b4e4-924f-4acd-9944-452387e6b2ba/1A1F1158-AB90-4AE5-9951-F39796DF279E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/" href="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/" style="font-size: 11px;">green.foxnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/"><H1>Navy Ships Repel Bacteria, Thanks to Shark Skin</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/"><P><IMG height="138" width="150" alt="Sharklet2" src="http://green.foxnews.com/files/2009/10/Sharklet21-150x138.jpg" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-493" />Ever wonder how sharks stay so squeaky clean, while whales and other sea creatures attract barnacles and other critters? That smooth skin inspired <A href="http://www.sharklet.com/">Sharklet Technologies</A>, which based a new bacteria-busting film on it. And the Navy’s going to put it on their boats.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/">Researchers have been designing products inspired by or flat-out aping mother nature for years, a process called <EM>biomimicry.</EM> Sharklet Technologies is the latest to employ biomimicry, having studied the pattern of shark skin and printed it on a thin film in order to repel smaller bugs—bacteria.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/green.foxnews.com/img/FCBA1898-E8A5-40E3-A618-62739CA1E97F" alt="Sharklet2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://green.foxnews.com/2009/10/30/navy-ships-to-repel-bacteria-thanks-to-shark-skin/"><P><A href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-10/saving-skin"><EM>Popular Science</EM></A> notes that the film, which is covered with microscopic diamond-shaped bumps, is the first “surface topography” proven to keep the bugs at bay. In tests in a California hospital, for three weeks the plastic sheeting’s surface prevented dangerous microorganisms, such as E. coli and Staphylococcus A, from establishing colonies large enough to infect humans.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A1F1158-AB90-4AE5-9951-F39796DF279E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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