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RAJ Vs KOL Eliminator Match - Team (23.05.18)

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Venue:  Eden Gardens, Kolkata Date & Time: 23rd, May, 07:00 PM  Rajasthan Royals (All Players): Ajinkya Rahane (c), Stuart Binny, Ben Laughlin, Jaydev Unadkat, Sanju Samson, Ish Sodhi, Krishnappa Gowtham, Rahul Tripathi, Shreyas Gopal, Heinrich Klaasen (w), Jofra Archer, Dhawal Kulkarni, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Prashant Chopra, Jatin Saxena, Mahipal Lomror, D Arcy Short, Aryaman Birla, Sudhesan Midhun Kolkata Knight Riders (All Players) : Dinesh Karthik (c), Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Shubman Gill, Shivam Mavi, Javon Searles, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Rinku Singh, Mitchell Johnson, Tom Curran, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar, Ishank Jaggi, Apoorv Wankhade, Cameron Delport Probable Players RAJASTHAN : Ajinkya Rahane (c), Heinrich Klaasen (w), Stuart Binny, Ben Laughlin, Jaydev Unadkat, Sanju Samson, Ish Sodhi, Krishnappa Gowtham, Rahul Tripathi, Shreyas Gopal, Jofra Archer KOLKATA:   Dine
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Application of Lotus effect

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Basic principle behind the sanitary coatings, textiles, paints 
      The Lotus effect has been an inspiration for several materials, such as paints, coatings, and textiles. Here, interplay of chemistry is superhydrophobic effect. There are some natural materials that have superhydrophobic properties, such as the Lotus leaf, and the legs of the water strider.

The Lotus effect
  •  The Lotus plant is a native Asian plant which has the distinct property of having its leaves particularly clean even if its natural habitat is muddy.
  • The leaves of the Lotus plant have the outstanding characteristic of totally repelling water because they are superhydrophobic.
  • Droplets of water on the lotus leaf appear spherical like beads.
  • When you splash the Lotus leaf with water, water rolls off the leaf, and in doing so drags dirt away.
  • The result is that the Lotus leaf is dry and clean.
  • The surface of the Lotus leaf self-cleans. This is called the Lotus Effect.

Self-cleaning: how does it work?
  • The consequence is that water droplets roll off the leaf surface and in doing so it drag dirt away from it. This effect, called “self-cleaning” renders the Lotus leaf clean and resistant to dirt.
  • Contaminants on the surface rest on the tips of the rough surface. When a water droplet rolls over the contaminant, the droplet removes the particle from the surface of the leaf.
Great factor behind the life time of solar panel

     One of the problems with this technology is that they are kept outdoors and therefore prone to become very dirt. This layer of dirt “masks” the catalytic areas of the solar cells and therefore reduces its efficiency and life-time. Solar panel is coated with a superhydrophobic coating keeps the panel considerably cleaner. Because of the nano-surface roughness, the coating is transparent to UV light, a necessity for these types of devices. The superhydrophobic coating is also durable, which further improves the solar panel life-time.