Close up of a water drop on a rose petal. Rose petals exhibit a property called superhydrophobicity, which is of interest to material scientists. Now, researchers at Iowa State University have managed ...

Scientists have developed technology to make metallic replicas of soft, natural surfaces such as rose petals. The team's metallic surfaces retained properties of the originals, including a rose ...

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AMES, Iowa - Nature has worked for eons to perfect surface textures that protect, hide and otherwise help all kinds of creatures survive. There's the shiny, light-scattering texture of blue morpho ...