Bringing food chemistry to life

Beating the teapot effect Authors: C. Duez, C. Ybert, C. Clanet, L. Bocquet (Submitted on 17 Oct 2009) Cyrill Duez’s team show that superhydrophobic surfaces stop the tea from wetting the inner surface of the spout and pretty much stop the dripping. Richard Alleyne, science correspondent for the UK Telegraph newspaper, says this backs up [...]