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Oct. 15--Nanotechnology's latest party trick involves red wine and a pair of white jeans. <\/p>\n
Shay Curran, the University of Houston's nanotechnology expert, does it like this: Pour the wine onto the jeans and watch it pool up like water on glass. Then give the jeans a quick snap and watch the wine fall right off. <\/p>\n
Because of a special coating made of particles so tiny and thin that they can't be felt by the human hand, the white jeans stay as good as new, Curran said. <\/p>\n
Curran used the trick in Europe, while demonstrating the University of Houston's first nanotechnology product during a competition in the Netherlands. <\/p>\n
\"They were saying do something interesting, do wine,\" said Curran, who is the director of the university's Institute for NanoEnergy. <\/p>\n
Five companies -- makers of carpets, fabrics, threads, tarps and glass -- will be the first to test the coating, said Curran, who is CEO of a firm called C-Voltaics that the university is spinning off to sell the coating. <\/p>\n
Spinoff companies are common for research universities, which get royalties from technology developed in their labs. While the University of Houston has at least 17 such companies, C-Voltaics is its first in the field of nanotechnology, which Rice University has dominated in Texas. <\/p>\n
The businesses testing C-Voltaics' material probably will begin selling products treated with the coating as early as next spring, Curran said, and C-Voltaics also hopes to begin selling a consumer-oriented wood coating online within the next eight weeks. <\/p>\n
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