Research gives clues for self-cleaning materials, water-striding robots

		IMAGE: Research team, left to right, Xiao Cheng Zeng, UNL, Kenji Yasuoka, Keio University, Takahiro Koishi, University of Fukui. Click here for more information.

Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN institute.