ArticleNature communications2022
Electrically switched underwater capillary adhesion.
Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Heterogeneous Wettability-Based Construction of Two-Phase Interfaces for Underwater Reversible Adhesion.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Starfish-inspired tube feet for temporary and switchable underwater adhesion and transportation.Science advances · 2025Article
- Role of chemistry in nature-inspired skin adhesives.Chemical science · 2025Review
- Detachment forces during parallel-plate gap separation mediated by a simple yield-stress fluid.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2024Article
- Electro-capillary peeling of thin films.Nature communications · 2023Article
- A Photocured Bio-based Shape Memory Thermoplastics for Reversible Wet Adhesion.Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) · 2023Article
- Recent Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators: From Technological Progress to Commercial Applications.ACS nano · 2023Review
- Getting glued in the sea.Polymer journal · 2023Review
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Abstract
Developing underwater adhesives that can rapidly and reversibly switch the adhesion in wet conditions is important in various industrial and biomedical applications. Despite extensive progresses, the manifestation of underwater adhesion with rapid reversibility remains a big challenge. Here, we report a simple strategy that achieves strong underwater adhesion between two surfaces as well as rapid and reversible detachment in on-demand manner. Our approach leverages on the design of patterned hybrid wettability on surfaces that selectively creates a spatially confined integral air shell to preserve the water bridge in underwater environment. The overall adhesion strength can be multiplied by introducing multiple air shells and rapidly broken by disturbing the integrity of the protective air shell in response to the applied voltage on two surfaces. Our design can be constructed on the flexible substrate with hybrid wettability, which can be applied to non-conductive substrates and adapted to more complicated morphologies, extending the choice of underlying materials.
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