No more hitting
the 57! Thanks to MIT researchers, pouring ketchup
out of a bottle will be easy:
[MIT grad student Dave Smith] and a team of mechanical engineers
and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group have been held
up in an MIT lab for the last two months addressing this common dining
problem.
The result? LiquiGlide, a "super slippery" coating made
up of nontoxic materials that can be applied to all sorts of food packaging--though
ketchup and mayonnaise bottles might just be the substance’s first
targets. Condiments may sound like a narrow focus for a group of MIT
engineers, but not when you consider the impact it could have on food
waste and the packaging industry. "It’s funny: Everyone is
always like, 'Why bottles? What’s the big deal?' But then you
tell them the market for bottles--just the sauces alone is a $17 billion
market," Smith says. "And if all those bottles had our coating,
we estimate that we could save about one million tons of food from being
thrown out every year."
Fast Company has the video clip of the fancy schmancy nanotech coating:
here.
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