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Chemistry World November 11, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Design rules for wet-proof materials A new series of equations should allow scientists to design the ultimate unwettable surfaces, according to Robert Cohen and Gareth McKinley at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.
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Fast Company March 1, 2007 Fara Warner	Sally's Dreamcoat Imagine a world where you never have to scrape ice off your windshield -- and where car paints don't pollute. The promise of Sally Ramsey's technology is what makes Ecology Coatings rather more interesting than just another startup.
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Chemistry World September 8, 2009 Ned Stafford	Tackling graffiti A new coating was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute and the Center of polymer and carbon materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice and Zabrze, Poland.
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