Scientists modify metal to move water like a paper towel.

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3387

What a fantastic post! Thank you for telling us so much about the article. It was lovely to read your thoughts, too.

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In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle—but does so at a speed that would make nature envious. The metal, revealed in an upcoming issue of Applied Physics Letters, may prove invaluable in pumping microscopic amounts of liquid around a medical diagnostic chip, cooling a computer's processor, or turning almost any simple metal into an anti-bacterial surface.

I rather like the idea of cooling down computer components with it - I'm starting to dislike my fans, particularly if I'm watching a film.

What a fantastic post! Thank you for telling us so much about the article. It was lovely to read your thoughts, too.

My summary was in the thread title.