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Originally Posted by Seaworthy Lass
Unfortunately "Hydrophobic" and "Self cleaning" do not imply any antifouling properties.
If a technique like this did work imagine how paranoid you would be with anything contacting the hull and damaging the finish .
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The article specifically mentioned anti-fouling.
That true regarding the paranoia! You would be paranoid.
At the very least it could be used on things like
rigging pins, split rings,
electrical nick-nacks... or imagine never having to clean your stainless.
In any case, I'm an ever eternal optimist when it comes to someone figuring out how to scale new technologies up. If there is
money to be made someone will figure it out. For example, they could use the same technique as us used in CD manufacturing, where the laser burns an image into a
photo resist and then a chemical is used to etch the surface.