The high-tech coating that makes ketchup, toothpaste and glue glide out of the container
Getting ketchup out of the bottle wasn't always so smooth or easy. But a coating material called LiquiGlide, originally invented to solve a problem in the oil industry, cuts the natural friction...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: Have you ever had trouble getting ketchup out of a bottle? How about stopping an oil rig from exploding? A lab in Boston has developed a slick solution for both problems. Our science producer, Nsikan Akpan, reports about this new coating in our latest episode of ScienceScope. NSIKAN AKPAN: Look at this ketchup sliding, so smooth, so easy. Back in the day, using condiments tended to end with a caveman-mess, but not with these high-tech bottles. Their insides are coated with something called LiquiGlide. KRIPA VARANASI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: It's a coating technology that can basically get every last bit of the product out, so you can save on billions of tons of product that's wasted. What LiquiGl...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: Have you ever had trouble getting ketchup out of a bottle? How about stopping an oil rig from exploding? A lab in Boston has developed a slick solution for both problems. Our science producer, Nsikan Akpan, reports about this new coating in our latest episode of ScienceScope. NSIKAN AKPAN: Look at this ketchup sliding, so smooth, so easy. Back in the day, using condiments tended to end with a caveman-mess, but not with these high-tech bottles. Their insides are coated with something called LiquiGlide. KRIPA VARANASI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: It's a coating technology that can basically get every last bit of the product out, so you can save on billions of tons of product that's wasted. What LiquiGl...
