We don't normally recommend infomercial videos to our readers, but trust us on this one: This commercial for Rustoleum's NeverWet water-repellent spray is mind-boggling. NeverWet's "super-hydrophobic ...

A self-healing, water-repellent, spray-on coating is hundreds of times more durable than its counterparts, report researchers in a new article. A self-healing, water-repellent, spray-on coating ...

If you have been patiently waiting for the new Rust-Oleum NeverWet spray-on water repellent coating to arrive in stores after it was first unveiled to the world nearly two years ago, you will be ...

The coating is actually a combination of materials called "fluorinated polyurethane elastomer" mixed with a water-repellent molecule known as "F-POSS." The researchers say that what sets their ...

Canadians have given us the basketball, the paint roller and the snowmobile. Now our neighbors to the north are exporting another homegrown invention: Jig-A-Loo, the world’s first “lubripellent,” a ...

A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking. Researchers have developed a new ...