Saturday, 21 May 2016

Switch and stick


TECH SPACE
Switch and stick Munich, Germany (SPX) May 20, 2016 - Some adhesives may soon have a metallic sheen and be particularly easy to unstick. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are suggesting gallium as just such a reversible adhesive. By inducing slight changes in temperature, they can control whether a layer of gallium sticks or not. This is based on the fact that gallium transitions from a solid state t ... more

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