{"id":1511,"date":"2005-08-09T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/09\/dude-your-paper-is-all-wet\/"},"modified":"2005-08-09T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T17:32:00","slug":"dude-your-paper-is-all-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/09\/dude-your-paper-is-all-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"dude, your paper is all wet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, how cool is this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nanotechnology start-up Ecology Coatings says it has developed a spray-on coating that, when properly dried, waterproofs materials&#8211;but still allows them to be written on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[T]he coating&#8230; made the paper waterproof without making it waxy, brittle or changing its other characteristics. The original piece of paper has been submerged in water since June&#8230; It hasn&#8217;t dissolved and [Chief Chemist Sally] Ramsey&#8217;s original writing is still on it. She once even took it out of the water, wrote on it some more, and submerged it again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/waterproofpaper_500x375-747990.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/waterproofpaper_500x375-745938.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8220;It was kind of a &#8216;MacGyver-ish&#8217; sort of thing,&#8221; she said, referring to the 1980s TV series about a scientifically resourceful secret agent. &#8220;It turns out also that the paper greatly slows down the growth of mildew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2102-7337_3-5823337.html?tag=st.util.print\">&#8220;Making paper waterproof&#8211;and writable&#8221;<\/a>, CNET News.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Science rocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, how cool is this? Nanotechnology start-up Ecology Coatings says it has developed a spray-on coating that, when properly dried, waterproofs materials&#8211;but still allows them to be written on&#8230; [T]he coating&#8230; made the paper waterproof without making it waxy, brittle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}