<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/f7d0c28b-e0bd-4661-89da-ede116205a07/686B7568-6CA0-410C-BB9B-5A9DF66E0542/" 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://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth" href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth" style="font-size: 11px;">i.gizmodo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth"><H1><A href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth">Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth</A></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://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth"><P><IMG height="233" width="320" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/03/Noahs_Ark.jpg" />Bugs that skate on <A href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/water/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged WATER" class="tagautolink autolink">water</A> can do it because their feet are "superhydrophobic." Chinese scientists applied a similar coating to a tiny copper mesh boat, and suddenly it could hold three times the weight.</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://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth"><P>It's actually crazy: The superhydrophobic coating—what the scientists are casually calling "the cooperative effect of hierarchical micro/nanostructures and a low-surface-energy wax coating"—creates a cushion of air around the boat (or the bug's leg), putting an invisible bubble between it and the <A href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/water/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged WATER" class="tagautolink autolink">water</A>. The boat is literally floating on air, while the water tries to touch it but can't. What's creepy is that the coated boats sink immediately when immersed in organic liquids like ethanol and acetone.</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://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/i.gizmodo.com/img/44F1E932-38D8-4B61-92B1-5CEEC4AD7D4F" alt="" /></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://i.gizmodo.com/5169188/scientists-invent-floatiest-material-on-earth"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/i.gizmodo.com/img/F267E5EF-E6D3-4BD0-B31C-72C9D130D06A" alt="" /></div></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/686B7568-6CA0-410C-BB9B-5A9DF66E0542/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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