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Applied at the soil surface
WaterPearls are spread on the soil around the plant — drip lines, trees, vines, potted crops, hydroponic mats. Application is one-time and mechanical.
A proprietary, patented organic diblock-polymer bead, the size of a small grape, engineered to replicate the super-hydrophobic surface of the lotus leaf — at the molecular scale.
Biological models like the lotus leaf served as the inspiration for our super-hydrophobic technology. The geometry of the WaterPearl surface replicates the lotus leaf's microscopic bumps — designed for optimal surface wetting behaviour.
Water drop shape and microscopic surface morphology transform the WaterPearl into an extremely water-repellent material. This thermodynamically stable surface holds its performance — without any drop in efficiency over the bead's lifetime.
Transpiration is a driving force in a plant's life cycle. But when irrigating a crop, excess water is allotted to ensure soil moisture — and most of that excess never reaches the roots.
WaterPearls are spread on the soil around the plant — drip lines, trees, vines, potted crops, hydroponic mats. Application is one-time and mechanical.
The super-hydrophobic layer raises the resistance to water leaving the surface as vapour — in dry climates, the loss that can take a third or more of applied water before it reaches a root.
By cutting that surface loss, more of each irrigation stays as liquid water in the soil profile, available to the roots — less waste, more uptake.
Soil, drip, hydroponic or reservoir — the same physics.
