A coating that prevents foam from forming

You may be done with the milk spilling out of the pots or the soda bottle squirting with a coating that prevents foam from forming.

Soon we will have pans with a micropattern etched on the surface and capable of removing foam as it forms.

It is a coating developed by researchers at MIT.

They realized that the small bubbles very quickly turned into foam because they tended to bounce against the walls.

So they designed a coating that forces them to dissipate and burst.

As a result, they no longer accumulate which avoids creating foam.

Is it a coating that can be added to any container?

We talked about the pans but they did a demonstration with glasses.

One could also imagine it on bottles of champagne impossible to make squirt.

But the first to use it will certainly be manufacturers because bubbles and foam are real scourges in many manufacturing processes such as the production of paper, biofuels, shampoos and cosmetics.

The foam sometimes ends up taking up more space than the product.

It can even clog pipes.

Where did the idea of ​​making antifoam tanks come from?

Exactly.

Today, manufacturers are forced to use chemicals to limit foam.

Then you have to filter everything to eliminate them.

In short, it's expensive and complicated.

So we are not the only ones with our pans waiting for this magical coating.

It should arrive in the next few weeks.

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