Modern life runs on adhesives, from the soles of shoes to the joints that hold furniture together, yet most of them share one stubborn weakness: they fail when water gets involved. A thin layer of ...

Although much of what we own is glued together, we don't think much about modern adhesives – until a shoe sole comes loose or our sofa collapses. But engineers think about adhesives a lot, and they've ...

For adhesive hydrogels, achieving instant, strong, and repeatable underwater adhesion is a prevailing challenge. Through a combination of data mining and machine learning, Professor Gong, Professor ...

Over the last few years, Virginia Tech scientists have been looking to the octopus for inspiration to design technologies that can better grip a wide variety of objects in underwater environments.

Most glues need a dry surface to stick properly. Bonding materials underwater is challenging because water forms a thin film on any surface, so instead of an adhesive touching a material directly, it ...

Getting glue to stick in dry conditions is relatively easy, but having it maintain a bond underwater is much more difficult. That said, a new bio-based glue not only works underwater, it actually gets ...

Patent-pending adhesive formulations developed from fully sustainable, bio-based components establish bonds that grow stronger when underwater or exposed to wet conditions. Patent-pending adhesive ...

Scientists are using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations. A team has now created an octopus-inspired adhesive, inspired by the shape of octopus suckers, that can ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed an octopus-inspired adhesive capable of gripping and releasing objects underwater with precision - which can revolutionize underwater salvage, rescue diving ...