Self-Cleaning Paint: A Futuristic Dream Come True

Dealing first with types of paint, the technology now available to scientists is helping them to develop types of paint with new and highly useful properties.

Tech Times shows how a new ‘nanocoating’ — a paint made from coated titanium dioxide nanoparticles — can actually help to create ‘self-cleaning’ waterproof surfaces.

The article quotes chemist Yao Liu, who explained: “Being waterproof allows materials to self-clean as water forms marble-shaped droplets that roll over the surface, acting like miniature vacuum cleaners picking up dirt, viruses and bacteria along the way.”

Developments such as this can clearly have a big impact on surfaces exposed to extremes, be they indoor or outdoors.