American startup company LiquiGlide has developed an innovative coating that can permanently make the insides of a bottle wet and slippery.
The coating will help in reducing wastage of products like glue or toothpaste by making the products slide to the nozzle or bottom easily.
LiquiGlide is a company started by a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The solution has been developed by one of his graduate students, J David Smith, reported the New York Times.
The company has signed an exclusive licensing agreement for the use of such coatings in glue containers with Elmer's Products and has also licensed the technology to an Australia-based packaging firm.
As cited in New York Times, LiquiGlide said: "LiquiGlide is a permanently wet, liquid-impregnated surface which is designed to be hyper slippery, with the product sitting directly on a layer of liquid. A liquid-impregnated surface is a multi-layer surface, consisting of a customized solid texture and a liquid.
The highly textured solid surface is composed of a matrix of features spaced sufficiently close to stably contain the impregnating liquid that fills in the spaces between the features. The liquid is held in place within the texture, creating a permanently slippery, liquid surface. The product is actually sliding on our liquid layer, in a liquid-to-liquid interface."
The company said that the coating is made of different materials, depending on the product to be stored in the container.
LiquiGlide also claims that it is a green technology and helps in increasing energy efficiency, reducing waste, shrinking packaging and reducing carbon footprints.
