Sauces cling to, but don't waterlog, its hollow, sponge-like caps.
"Teaching young people is always a joy and in Callum's case he absorbed all the knowledge like a sponge, " he added.
Existing ultracapacitors get their extra surface area by using electrodes coated with carbon and etched to produce holes, rather like a sponge.
According to scientists from a smattering of institutions, the atomic-scale chickenwire material has the ability to absorb light effectively -- much like a sponge -- over a broad range of wavelengths.
The tax breaks could act like a giant sponge to soak up income that would otherwise be taxed.
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Water soaking will loosen them and like a new sponge, once in water it is never the same.
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That was like putting a Sponge Bob band-aid on a gaping surgical wound.
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But she was not disgusted, even when she had to rewrap stumps or sponge gashes that were sewn up like shark bites.
Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.
The result is, in effect, a liquid sponge, and means the mixture can be stored indefinitely, like ordinary diesel, without risk of separation.
The attendant will work up an almighty lather with an enormous sponge and squeeze it all over you - it is a bit like taking a bubble bath without the bath.
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