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 ...

Have you ever thought about repairing your leaky faucet without shutting off your home water supply? Or fixing your pool without emptying it first? Or restoring your boat directly at the marina? It ...

Researchers glued a rubber duck to a rock by the sea using an artificial-intelligence-designed hydrogel. On the shores of a beach in northern Japan, waves pummel a rubber duck stubbornly stuck to a ...

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 ...

Inspired by biology, researchers have achieved the highest performing underwater adhesive hydrogel technology to date through a data mining and machine learning approach. Hydrogels are a permeable ...

SEOULTECH Researchers Develop Smart Adhesive System Based on Starfish for Aquatic Applications SEOULTECH Researchers Develop Smart Adhesive System Based on Starfish for Aquatic Applications PR ...

The basis of the chemical is catechols, which are synthetic compounds designed to be analogous to the wet-but-still-sticky proteins that help mussels fixed to wet surfaces. This is the basis for ...

Soft robotics, which uses flexible and deformable materials, is an emerging field in autonomous systems. It has recently been applied to next-generation tasks such as deep-sea sampling with soft ...