Scientists at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, have developed a new type of toilet bowl that is so slippery that it is impossible to stick it. New toilet bowl designs, if scaled up, may eventually replace porcelain and ceramic toilets.
For centuries people have relied on porcelain and ceramics for their toilets. While it seems unlikely that this material will be completely replaced anytime soon, it could give scientists a new material to rely on when unclogging the extremely slippery toilet bowl.
The ultra-slippery toilet bowl was designed as a 3D printer and featured in a video new world This shows that almost nothing sticks to the bowl. More interestingly, the researchers found that the toilet bowl remained slippery after multiple uses and scrubbing with sandpaper.
The biggest advantage of a highly slippery toilet bowl is not only its cleanliness. If nothing sticks to the bowl, we can also see a reduction in water consumption for flushing the toilet when using this material.
The researchers call it the Abrasion Resistance Ultra-Slide Flush Toilet (ARSFT), and it’s made of materials that easily flush out complex liquids and viscous solids. However, these types of materials usually break easily from mechanical wear, the researchers noted in a paper published in 2019. Advanced technical equipment.
However, the material the ultra-slip toilet bowl is made of can withstand sandpaper and still be as slippery as ever, which is quite an achievement. While it’s unlikely that this type of material will replace our current toilets, it’s cool to see what scientists can achieve in this particular area, and it’ll be interesting to see where they take it from here.
Perhaps we’ll see this substance in lunar toilets at some point in the future.
