While in eighth grade, I did a video on lotus leaves and superhydrophobic surfaces. D.R.I.P.S. would benefit from having such a surface on the cone part of the dew collecting structure.
Check out this video from California Institute of Technology (one of the schools I’m thinking of attending in a few years). The video shows the movement of a water drop on a superhydrophobic surface.
Water Droplet Bouncing On A Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array
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