Author: Brianna Ankoma
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Be careful not to SLIP
Biomimicry is an interdisciplinary field that combines engineering and biology to design machines and tools based on plant traits (Hayakawa et al. 2024). One of the major challenges for scientists was creating an extremely water-repellent material that would prevent liquids from adhering to surfaces (Xue et al. 2010). Scientists created superhydrophobic surfaces which were surfaces…