adhere to water
1. Biolytix® water filter
The Biolytix® System is a compact waste treatment system that converts raw sewage, wastewater, and food waste into high quality irrigation water on site. The Biolytix® system removes solid wastes from wastewater immediately. Then selected...
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2. Capillary Faucets
Similar to the roots of a tree, capillary tubes carry water up a few centimeters. They then create droplets by recombining those tubes so the meniscus' touch. This is derived from reverse-engineering how water gets into a coconut.Stair-stepp...
3. Water-repellent ship coatings
Structural design of water fern leaf surfaces may be mimicked to create superhydrophobic coatings for ships and other technological surfaces. Such coatings could significantly reduce friction and drag forces on ships, thus decreasing fuel consumpt...
4. Round shape reduces water loss: pebble plants
"Pebble plants grow in the stonier patches of the same [Namib] [D]esert. They survive by living partly underground. Their leaves have been reduced to a single pair, fat, round and succulent, with just a groove between them from which, in the right...
5. Capturing prey above the water's surface: archer fish
"Further animal artefacts that resemble tools include the woodpecker's anvil, a tree stump with a suitable wedgelike cavity to hold cones, the use of a water jet to shoot down prey by the archer fish (Trichogaster jaculatrix), and the Australian b...
6. Body temperature regulated in hot environment: African camels
"When African camels (Camelus dromedarius) do not get enough water, their body temperature's amplitude (the difference between its highest and lowest values) increases from 3.6°F (2°C) to as much as 10.8°F (6°C)." (Shuker 2001:91)
7. Feet adhere temporarily: aphids
"Thus, in an aerial system, water can act as an adequate glue by a mechanism commonly referred to as 'capillary adhesion.' Aphids appear to use it to adhere to surfaces (Dixon, Croghan, and Gowing 1990). And it almost certainly helps a tree frog r...
8. Fungal skin prevents water loss: lichens
"Others [lichens] develop minuscule branches and grow into dense curling thickets a few inches high. Their outer skin is formed by the compacted threads of the fungi and is sufficiently impermeable to prevent the loss of water from the partnership...
9. Eggs adhere in and out of water: midwife toad
"After the pair lays and fertilizes strings of twenty to sixty eggs, the father thrusts his legs through the egg mass. The sticky egg strings adhere to him, and he stumbles around for the next few weeks with the eggs entwined around his thighs and...
10. Deciduous trees produce more soil water: oaks
"Will any forest tree work the same on a given site? Are trees completely interchangeable? The questions hinged on whether trees vary in their capacity for water interception and transpiration. To get answers, loggers clear-cut mature hardwood for...
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