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University of Rochester researchers, inspired by diving bell spiders and rafts of fire ants, have created a metallic structure that is so water repellant, it refuses to sink -- no matter how often it is punctured. Could this lead to: • An unsinkable ship? • A wearable flotation device that will still float after being punctured? • Electronic monitoring devices that can survive long term in the ocean? All of the above, says Chunlei Guo, professor of optics and physics, whose lab describes the structure
