Water repellency as the first step to life on land one billion years ago - Phys.org

Plants use the "lotus effect" to self-clean—water droplets simply roll off and clean the surface to reduce infestation with fungal spores, for example, as Professor Wilhelm Barthlott of the University of Bonn discovered four decades ago. But it's not just pla…

Plants use the "lotus effect" to self-cleanwater droplets simply roll off and clean the surface to reduce infestation with fungal spores, for example, as Professor Wilhelm Barthlott of the University… [+3286 chars]

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