Self Propelled Droplets

[Big J]

I saw an interesting article in the NY Times about water movement on super heated surfaces, and how you can control direction of flow. Could have some applications in distilling, maybe not at the home distiller level, but interesting none the less. Here is the link to the people doing the research:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~linke/res_droplets.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Cheers,
J