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Chemistry World
May 21, 2013
Yuandi Li |
Manipulating liquid metal marbles Researchers in Australia and Germany have made highly controllable actuators in the form of liquid metal marbles. The marbles have a nanoparticle coating that can be electrochemically manipulated to control their movement.   |
Chemistry World
May 8, 2013
Cara E Sutton |
Coming unstuck with DNA A DNA-based glue has been developed by scientists at the University of Illinois, US. The adhesive uses DNA base pair mimics that bind to each other more strongly than their natural counterparts and may lead to glues far more powerful than Super Glue. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2011
Russell Johnson |
Sticky hydrogels make resilient wound dressings An adhesive material made from a hydrogel filled with nanoparticles could lead to wound dressings that won't fall off when you sweat. |
Chemistry World
August 1, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Now You Stick me, Now You Don't Researchers have developed a novel system of reversible adhesion, where two surfaces bind tightly or loosen completely depending on the prevailing pH. |
Chemistry World
February 18, 2008
Michael Gross |
Nanofiber Tape is Sticky Stuff The gecko's ability to walk up vertical walls could soon be copied by humans, thanks to new adhesive materials based on the structures found in its feet. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2013
Sonja Hampel |
Beetle feet inspire drug delivery patches A drug delivery plaster mimicking the wet adhesion of beetle feet has been developed by scientists in Taiwan. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2015
Andy Extance |
Porous pills could be largest industrial 3D printing use The first ever approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of a 3D printed tablet promises to make medications easier to swallow than existing formulations. |
Chemistry World
May 16, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Nanopolymers Get Stuck In U.S. scientists have discovered how to glue two materials together with a one nanometer-high layer of polymer chains. |
Chemistry World
February 14, 2013
James Urquhart |
Chemical velcro sticks underwater South Korean scientists have developed a chemical velcro that shows promise as a strong and reversible underwater adhesive. |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 75
David Bradley |
Stuck On You The race to find a material as "sticky" as a gecko's foot could soon be over as stronger and more practical materials are reported by a team based at four US institutions. |
Chemistry World
July 26, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Reversible Glue `De-Bonds' at the Touch of a Button A new kind of superglue that uses nanoscale magnetic particles to bond and de-bond on command has been developed. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2011
Jennifer Newton |
Microfluidic pinball A device to deposit polymer layers on oil droplets has been made by researchers from Singapore, who say that their design is faster and more efficient than conventional deposition techniques and uses microfluidics. |
Chemistry World
July 20, 2009
Philip Ball |
Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2011
Tegan Thomas |
Bubble Trouble Eliminated in Cancer Treatment US scientists have developed a microfluidic device to manufacture droplets of a specific size at high speed for a cancer treatment called embolisation. |
Chemistry World
May 28, 2015
Cesar Palmero |
Gecko-inspired adhesives for microfluidics Scientists from Canada report an affordable manufacturing advance in microfluidics with a dry adhesive system that demonstrates strong, self-healing and reversible bonding. |
Chemistry World
July 5, 2006
Jon Evans |
Perfect Coating Won't Touch Water Imagine a container that can hold liquid without actually touching it. Just such a container could soon become reality following the development by two chemists of a perfectly hydrophobic surface. |
Chemistry World
November 11, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Adaptive spider glue remains sticky come rain or shine A salt -- protein mixture present in glue droplets along each thread may allow spiders to tune the stickiness of their webbing. |
