video: A video showing tough adhesives containing blue or green dyes. Here, it's applied onto a pig heart to show superior adhesion and stretchability performance, as well as being molded into a shape of a slug to illustrate the bio-inspired concept underlying their design. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Li at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Tough adhesives for diverse wet surfaces." view more
Credit: Jianya Li, Adam D. Celiz, David J. Mooney