Five MIT students and their professor Kripa Varanasi have come up with a way to make a surface that anything will slide off—from ketchup out of bottles to ice off airplane wings. The plant-based product adds a microscopic slippery coating to almost any material—glass, ceramic, metal or plastic.
The original version of this article incorrectly estimated the price of LiquiGlide at 25 cents per bottle. Since LiquiGlide is a “customizable platform technology”, the company says it’s not possible to estimate a price.