Malta’s Microscopic Edge: How Tiny Textures Are Saving Millions & Creating Jobs
Friction to Function: How Malta’s Engineers Turn Texture into Treasure Valletta’s 16th-century bastions are smooth to the eye but surprisingly grippy under a rubber-soled shoe. That silent grip—stone micro-ridges catching polymer peaks—is the same physics now guiding Maltese start-ups as they 3-D-print shark-skin textures onto yacht propellers and hospital door-handles. From Lascaris War Rooms to…