The peeling apart of layered materials is common in nature and has been used by humans
in myriad applications since prehistoric times. Over the past century, a wide range of peel …

Polymeric tissue adhesives provide versatile materials for wound management and are
widely used in a variety of medical settings ranging from minor to life-threatening tissue …

The wettability of solid surfaces is a renewed old topic that has impacted most fields of
science and technology for a long time, from cave painting in the ancient to microfluidic …

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) and their composites (SMPCs) are smart materials that can
be stably deformed and then return to their original shape under external stimulation, thus …

Self-cleaning surfaces have drawn a lot of interest for both fundamental research and
practical applications. This review focuses on the recent progress in mechanism …

Reversible adhesion is the key functionality to grip, place, and release objects
nondestructively. Inspired by nature, micropatterned dry adhesives are promising …

The amazing adhesion of gecko pads to almost any kind of surfaces has inspired a very
active research direction over the last decade: the investigation of how geckos achieve this …

The maturation of nanotechnology has revealed it to be a unique and distinct discipline
rather than a specialization within a larger field. Its textbook cannot afford to be a chemistry …

Multiscale, hierarchically patterned surfaces, such as lotus leaves, butterfly wings, adhesion
pads of gecko lizards are abundantly found in nature, where microstructures are usually …

The importance of wetting is becoming increasingly obvious and its control is inevitable in
many engineering applications, including tribology and interface nanotechnology. However …