{"id":5732,"date":"2016-07-28T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:58:12","slug":"5732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"The Lotus effect on taro leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember posting an article about a new material that had been developed inspired by the water repellent leaves of Lady&#8217;s Mantle (Alchemilla spp.). Another species with very high water repellence (so-called superhydrophobicity) is the root vegetable taro (<em>Colocasia esculenta<\/em>) . Here it is demonstrating what is known as the Lotus effect on my balcony! See more at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lotus_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/<wbr \/>wiki\/Lotus_effect<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620545-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1620545\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620545-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620545-300x306.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620545.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620547.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620547-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1620547\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620547-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620547.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620549-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1620549\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620549-289x300.jpg 289w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1620549.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember posting an article about a new material that had been developed inspired by the water repellent leaves of Lady&#8217;s Mantle (Alchemilla spp.). Another species with very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[769,1473,1472,1474],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-root-crops","tag-colocasia-esculenta","tag-lotus-effect","tag-superhydrophobicity","tag-taro"],"views":20476,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}