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“We varied the material’s surface structure to achieve the greatest efficiency, then carried out the crystal experiments with this optimum structure size,” says Schutzius’ doctoral student Julian Schmid.

The team’s experiments showed the hydrogel coating is highly effective in removing limescale crystals. When water was allowed to flow across the hydrogel-coated surface, which had previously grown limescale crystals with a size of around 10 micrometers, up to 98% of the crystals were removed.