Gluing soft materials without glue | Headline Science

If you’re a fan of arts and crafts, you’re likely familiar with the messy, sticky, frustration-inducing nature of liquid glues. But researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces now have a brand-new way to weld squishy stuff together without the need for glue at all. They’ve demonstrated a universal, “electroadhesion” technique that can adhere soft materials to each other just by running electricity through them. “Universal Way to “Glue” Capsules and Gels into 3D Structures by Electroadhesion” - Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Ph.D. (corresponding author) You might also like: Headline Science: Ingenious: ACS Spring 2023 Media Briefings: Chemical & Engineering News Produced by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Join the American Chemical Society!