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These water-shedding ceramics may find uses in steam-based power plants, desalination plants and other industrial applications.
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MIT postdoc Gisele Azimi, left, displays three of the 13 different ceramic disks made from oxides of the rare earth elements, with associate professor Kripa Varanasi. Behind them is the furnace used to convert the powdered oxides into solid ceramic form.
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