Rememberthat no - stick tomato ketchup bottle of the futurean MIT professor made a few years ago ? Well , the MIT team make a company to sell the super slippery technology , and Elmer ’s recently signed an exclusive license to utilize it in their glue bottle . reasonably slick ! ( Sorry . )
The companionship , LiquiGlide , is selling a product that ’s simple but ingenious . It come out with a porous surface deep down of a container that ’s coat with a lubricating liquidity . This way , when the container is filled with something like gum or mayo , the pasty liquid state skid along with lubricated open without perplex to the side of the bottle . This not only makes it well-fixed to squeeze out the sticky liquidity but also save on thriftlessness . It also lasts longer thanhydrophobic coatings like NeverWet .
“ We ’re not defying physics , but effectively , we are , ” David Smith , the graduate educatee now serving as LiquiGlide ’s principal administrator , toldThe New York Times .
Like many amazing inventions , the idea behind LiquiGlide come from small descent . MIT professor Kripa K. Varanasi ’s married woman was complaining about how she could n’t get all the love out of the jounce and asked her husband , an expert on slickness , to come up with a solution . He did it in a weekend . However , the long terminal figure ambition for LiquiGlide is lofty . The team hopes that industrial applications will enable them to coat the inside of pipe — say , those that persuade fossil oil across Continent — to cut down on rubbing and the need for pump .
Oh and in case you were wonder , the Elmer ’s glue can still be child - safe since LiquiGlide is able to use food - found lubricating substance . But do n’t eat gum . Nobody likes the child who eats glue .
[ New York Times ]
GIFs by Michael Hession via LiquiGlide
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