Octopuses have a superpower. They can cling to nearly any surface, no matter how wet or slippery, with their sucker-lined ...

It does this underwater, on objects that are rough ... “This resulted in octopus-inspired adhesives that are 1,000 times ...

The biomedical adhesives used in such applications need to maintain strong adhesion underwater while minimizing side effects. The ability to customize features like biodegradation time is also ...

Using mechanisms inspired by nature, Virginia Tech researchers have created a new adhesive based on the ... “Some of the challenging underwater objects are rocks that have curvatures and roughness.