Nonstick coating means nothing left in the bottle
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028735
New York Times : Getting the last of anything out of a bottle usually involves scraping the inside. Depending on the viscosity of the substance, up to a quarter of the contents of a bottle may end up being thrown out. Now, Kripa K. Varanasi of MIT and graduate student J. David Smith have created a startup, called LiquiGlide, to market a coating they developed that allows a bottle’s contents to easily slide out, regardless of the viscosity. Thanks to its porous surface, their material traps a lubricant that can be customized to best match the properties of the intended contents of the bottle. The lubricant makes the inner surface of the container superhydrophobic, which prevents the contents from binding to the container’s interior.
