And on the sails, a coating of solar panels would trap energy from the sun.
If a rock has a coating of dust, hundreds of repeated pulses from the laser can remove those layers.
Mr Cassagnes saw the potential for the toy when he noticed, while working with metal powders, that marks in a coating of aluminium powder could be seen from the other side of a translucent plate.
Dr Hinterdorfer and his team tested this idea by applying a coating of an antigen (an enzyme called lysozyme) to a mica sheet, and suspending an appropriate antibody from the tip of an atomic-force microscope with a flexible polymer tether.
"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.
The locally sourced potatoes are twice fried in a healthy coating of duck fat that results in a crunchy exterior but leaves each fry's interior fresh and tender.
When it melts, tilt the pan so that the sides have a thin coating of melted butter (or do this with a pastry brush).
For an inexpensive manufacturing process, Norton has turned to electroplating, which has been around for more than a century for coating a variety of materials.
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Neverwet is a superhydrophobic coating that can be used on a variety of surfaces, including use as a spray coating for clothing, the way you might use a typical waterproofing spray.
McPhail explains that Liquipel has developed a proprietary nanotech coating that adding a superthin protective coating to all of the phones parts.
Pegasys takes an old hepatitis C drug, interferon, and wraps it in a protective polymer coating of polyethylene glycol (PEG for short) that prevents the interferon from being broken down quickly in the body.
Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.
But Dr Bruel found that if a hydrogen-treated wafer is first fused to another wafer that has been given a glass coating, the force of the gas bubbles will instead cause a thin silicon film to peel off the one and on to the other.
Instead of digging holes in the electrodes, they are coating them with a forest of carbon nanotubes, each five nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide.
The cladding is a weatherproof coating applied to the outside of the buildings which is a few millimetres thick, a housing association spokesman said.
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All I could see was a century of coal grime coating the buildings.
Though it sacrifices genuine leather in favor of a rubber coating, its contours and features are similar, down to the Engine Start button (here, a d-pad) and the turn signals (replaced with face buttons).
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Unclassified roads face a wait of 86 years before they see a new surface coating, according to the study.
Following that tradition, the brainiacs over at the University of Reading have developed a new nano-material electrode coating based on the cellular structure of plants.
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Erosion, caused by acidic substances, is a wearing away of the enamel coating of teeth.
The two researchers built their transistors by coating both sides of a sheet of paper with semiconductors made of oxides of zinc, gallium and indium, rather than silicon.
Observations of the material coating the dark face of Iapetus indicate it has a similar composition to the surface material on Phoebe.
The Z10 features a removable backplate, made of plastic and given a thick, rubberized, dimpled coating.
The coating is a mere 20, 000th of an inch--a bit more than a micron--in thickness, thus adding negligible weight to the metal.
Standing between Prilosec and a torrent of cheap knockoffs are a judge in lower Manhattan and a chemical coating less than 10 microns thick.
By coating the carbon anode of a LiIon battery with a tangle of these submicroscopic silicon nanowires a battery can store more lithium without cracking or degrading after hundreds of charge cycles.
There's even a protective layer of splash-guard coating.
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Black ice coating roads in neighbouring Croatia has caused a spate of accidents, national TV reports said.
Its product, which consists of sheets of glass with a metal-oxide coating, was first used in skylights in 2003.
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