Material scientists are interested in mimicking the rose petal’s texture, and therefore it’s superhydrophobicity, for a variety of applications. Self-cleaning coatings, ...

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 ...

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 ...