The White version of the device has an industry-first Teflon coating (right, just like your pans) to keep things clean and grime free.

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Dr Bustamante and his colleagues got around the first problem by coating the tip with carbon.

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It was through his involvement in setting up the first drill pipe coating production line sourced from the U.S. that a business opportunity began to emerge.

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Its product, which consists of sheets of glass with a metal-oxide coating, was first used in skylights in 2003.

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The first they dealt with by coating the top of the device with oxides of hafnium, molybdenum and titanium, in layers about 100 nanometres thick.

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The cotton fibers are made conductive by coating the fibers, first with gold nanoparticles, and then with a thin layer of PEDOT.

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Marrying piezoelectrics with a thin film microchip coating, those scientists Down Under have for the first time identified just how much energy your pressure can generate.

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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.

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