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Self Cleaning Glass and water-repellency

How to measure the water-repellency or “hydrophobicity” The measurement that defines how water-repellent a surface is after being treated with a hydrophobic coating is called “contact angle”, also called ‘wetting angle’, which is the angle formed by the material’s surface and the tangent of the interface between the fluid (i.e.: water) and the environment at

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Self Cleaning Glass explained

This is the first in a series of posts on the subject of self cleaning glass surfaces or easy to clean glass coatings. ABSTRACT There are many companies around the world providing glass surface treatments today. Many of them simply sell a private labeled brand (someone else’s product) and only a few own their intellectual property, meaning that there

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