Autor: Liliana Decu

Jacheta tactica cu Tweave și Polartec Technology(Beyond Clothing Stretch Alpha Sweater 4-Way-Stretch Insulated Softshell Combat/Tactical Jacket with Tweave and Polartec Technology)

Dincolo de îmbrăcăminte, există o jachetă foarte interesantă, cu 4 căi, izolată, de tip stretch, numită Stretch Alpha Sweater (sau pulover Alpha Stretch), și un exemplu bun al unei softshell izolate pe care a observat-o DefenseReview (DR)

Beyond Clothing Stretch Alpha Sweater 4-Way-Stretch Insulated Softshell Combat/Tactical Jacket with Tweave and Polartec Technology! 

Posted by: David Crane January 21, 2018

Beyond Clothing has a very interesting 4-way stretch insulated softshell jacket called the Stretch Alpha Sweater (or, Alpha Stretch Sweater), and its as good an example of an insulated softshell that DefenseReview (DR) has seen. We actually got to see and handle it at Special Operations Industy Conference (SOFIC) 2017, and came away both intrigued and impressed, especially since we really liked the jacket’s visual design aesthetic, its Manatee Grey (or Gray) color scheme, and its use of premium performance materials like Tweave 4-way stretch fabric, and lightweight Polartech Alpha and possibly also Polartec Power Dry insulation–we’re not quite sure. The product web page says Polartec Alpha, but company rep Rick Elder also mentioned Polartec Power Dry in our video below.

Regardless, this jacket is all premium, and looks like a real luxury in cold environments, especially when you’re engaged in serious activity.

The Beyond Stretch Alpha Sweater currently comes in Grey, Navy and Ranger Green color schemes, and is currently priced at $325.00 USD. Not inexpensive, but also not crazy expensive. This jacket looks and sounds like it’s expensive to make, and appears to DR be a good value for the money.

Defense Review would obviously like to get our hands on one of these for ourselves at some point, as it’s really warm and comfy, not to mention good looking and utilitarian.

Anyway, here are the more detailed particulars on the Stretch Alpha Sweater from the Beyond Clothing page on it:

“A5 – STRETCH ALPHA SWEATER

The perfect garment for active use in cold, wet environments. The Stretch Alpha Sweater combines the warmth and moisture transport of an insulating layer with the durability and mobility of a softshell. The jacket is built out of three layers; starting with a grid fleece that pulls moisture away from the body towards a layer of Polartec® Alpha® Insulation. The Alpha® Insulation traps and retains body heat while continuing to transport moisture to the outer shell where moisture spreads and evaporates. The final layer is a flexible 4-way stretch woven fabric that is highly durable and protects you from the wind and rain. Wear the Stretch Alpha Sweater if you need to stay warm, dry, and protected while on the move.

Details:

Insulated hood
Front zip
Internal left chest pocket
Hand pockets
Materials:

Polartec® Alpha® Insulation – 60g
Polartec® Power Grid® Fleece
Tweave® Durastretch® Nylon with DWR
Benefits:

Breathable
Highly Durable
Water-Resistant
Wind-Resistant
Stretch Construction
Weight: 21.9 oz.

Part No: OM-0188-C10″

Company Contact Info:

THE ACROPOLIS (Beyond Clothing
6363 6th Ave South
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone: 206-767-0307
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://beyondclothing.com

Mill Direct Textiles (MDT) LLC (Polartec Fabrics)
Polartec Phone: 978-686–7700
Mill Direct Textiles Phone: 603-749-7655 (ROLL)
Polartec Website: http://polartec.com
MDT Website: http://www.milldirecttextiles.com

2-D staniu fără flambaj: Un posibil izolator topologic(2-D tin without buckling: A possible topological insulator)

Planar stanene are perspective extraordinare în domeniul electronicii și calculului. „Efectul QSH este destul de delicat, iar cei mai mulți izolatori topologici îl arată doar la temperaturi scăzute”, spune liderul echipei de proiect Guy Le Lay de la Universitatea Aix-Marseille. „Cu toate acestea, stanenul este prevăzut să adopte o stare QSH chiar și la temperatura camerei și mai sus, mai ales atunci când funcționează cu alte elemente.În viitor, sperăm să vedem stanene partenere cu silicen în circuitele de calculatoare.Această combinație ar putea accelera drastic eficiența computațională , chiar și în comparație cu tehnologia de vârf.

Posted: Jan 19, 2018

2-D tin without buckling: A possible topological insulator

(Nanowerk News) Sometimes it pays to be two-dimensional. The merits of graphene, a 2D sheet of carbon atoms, are well established. In its wake have followed a host of „post-graphene materials” – structural analogues of graphene made of other elements like silicon or germanium.
Now, an international research team led by Nagoya University (Japan) involving Aix-Marseille University (France), the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg (Germany) and the University of the Basque country (Spain) has unveiled the first truly planar sample of stanene: single sheets of tin (Sn) atoms. Planar stanene is hotly tipped as an extraordinary electrical conductor for high technology.
Stanene
High-resolution STM image of stanene prepared on a Ag2Sn surface alloy. The honeycomb stanene structure model is superimposed. (Image: Junji Yuhara)
Just as graphene differs from ordinary graphite, so does stanene behave very differently to humble tin in bulk form. Because of relatively strong spin-orbit interactions for electrons in heavy elements, single-layer tin is predicted to be a „topological insulator,” also known as a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. Materials in this remarkable class are electrically insulating in their interiors, but have highly conductive surfaces/edges. This, in theory, makes a single-layered topological insulator an ideal wiring material for nanoelectronics. Moreover, the highly conductive channels at the edge of these materials can carry special chiral currents with spins locked with transport directions, which makes them also very appealing for spintronics applications.
In previous studies, where stanene was grown on substrates of bismuth telluride or antimony, the tin layers turned out to be highly buckled and relatively inhomogeneous. The Nagoya team instead chose silver (Ag) as their host – specifically, the Ag(111) crystal facet, whose lattice constant is slightly larger than that of the freestanding stanene, leading to the formation of flattened tin monolayer in a large area, one step closer to the scalable industrial applications.
Individual tin atoms were slowly deposited onto silver, known as epitaxial growth. Crucially, the stanene layer did not form directly on top of the silver surface. Instead, as shown by core-level spectroscopy, the first step was the formation of a surface alloy (Ag2Sn) between the two species. Then, another round of tin deposition produced a layer of pure, highly crystalline stanene atop the alloy. Tunneling microscopy shows striking images of a honeycomb lattice of tin atoms, illustrating the hexagonal structure of stanene.
The alloy guaranteed the flatness of the tin layer, as confirmed by density-functional theory calculations. Junji Yuhara, lead author of an article by the team published in 2D Materials („Large area planar stanene epitaxially grown on Ag(1 1 1)”), explains: „Stanene follows the crystalline periodicity of the Ag2Sn surface alloy. Therefore, instead of buckling as it would in isolation, the stanene layer flattens out – at the cost of a slight strain – to maximize contact with the alloy beneath.” This mutual stabilization between stanene and host not only keeps the stanene layers impeccably flat, but lets them grow to impressive sizes of around 5,000 square nanometers.
Planar stanene has exciting prospects in electronics and computing. „The QSH effect is rather delicate, and most topological insulators only show it at low temperatures”, according to project team leader Guy Le Lay at Aix-Marseille University. „However, stanene is predicted to adopt a QSH state even at room temperature and above, especially when functionalized with other elements. In the future, we hope to see stanene partnered up with silicene in computer circuitry. That combination could drastically speed up computational efficiency, even compared with the current cutting-edge technology.”
Source: Nagoya University

Un nanofenomen care declanșează procesul de reparare a oaselor(A nanophenomenon that triggers the bone-repair process)

Aceste rezultate au promisiunea pentru industria protezelor, în care noi materiale care reproduc sau amplifică acest efect flexoelectric pot fi folosite pentru a ghida regenerarea tisulară, conducând la o asimilare mai reușită a implanturilor.Prin studierea gradientilor de tulpina in oase si minerale osoase pure (hidroxiapatita), cercetatorii au fost in masura sa calculeze magnitudinea exacta a acestui camp electric. Descoperirile lor indică faptul că este suficient de mare în interiorul celor 50 microni necesari pentru vârful crackului, pentru a fi detectat de către celulele responsabile de repararea oaselor, implicând direct în acest proces flexoelectricitatea.

Posted: Jan 19, 2018

A nanophenomenon that triggers the bone-repair process

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), a Severo Ochoa research centre located in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Campus and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), have discovered that bone too is flexoelectric. They posit the possible role of flexoelectricity in the regeneration of bone tissue in and around the kind of microfractures incurred in bones on a daily basis.
The ICN2 Oxide Nanophysics Group led by ICREA Prof. Gustau Catalan reports these findings today in Advanced Materials („Flexoelectricity in Bones”), with lead author Fabián Vásquez-Sancho. The work has potential implications for the prosthetics industry and the development of biomimetic self-healing materials.
micro-cracks in bone mineral
Strain gradients can be large around small defects such as micro-cracks in bone mineral, so gradient-induced electricity (flexoelectricity) is also expected to be large around such defects.
Bones were already known to generate electricity under pressure, stimulating self-repair and remodelling. First reported in the late fifties, this was initially attributed to the piezoelectricity of bone’s organic component, collagen. However, studies have since observed markers of bone repair in the absence of collagen, suggesting that other effects are at play. In this work ICN2 researchers have revealed just such an effect: the flexoelectricity of bone’s mineral component.
Flexoelectricity is a property of some materials that causes them to emit a small voltage upon application of a non-uniform pressure. This response is extremely localised, becoming weaker as you move away from the point of maximum stress. In microfractures it is localised to the leading edge or tip of the crack, an atomically small site that, by definition, concentrates the maximum strain a material is able to withstand before full rupture. The result is a flexoelectric field of such magnitude that, in the immediate vicinity of the crack, it eclipses any background collagen piezoelectric effect.
By studying strain gradients in bones and pure bone mineral (hydroxyapatite), the researchers have been able to calculate the precise magnitude of this electric field. Their findings indicate that it is sufficiently large within the required 50 microns of the crack tip to be sensed by the cells responsible for bone repair, directly implicating flexoelectricity in this process.
Furthermore, since the cells responsible for synthesising new bone tissue (osteoblasts) are known to attach close to the tip, it would appear that the electric field distribution signals this point as the centre of damage, becoming a moving beacon for repair efforts as the crack is healed.
These results hold promise for the prosthetics industry, where new materials that reproduced or amplified this flexoelectric effect could be used to guide tissue regeneration, leading to a more successful assimilation of implants.
Source: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Un nou nanocatalizator pentru producția de hidrogen(New nanocatalyst for hydrogen production)

Un material compozit nanostructurat dezvoltat la UC Santa Cruz a arătat o performanță impresionantă ca un catalizator pentru despicarea electrochimică a apei pentru a produce hidrogen. Un catalizator eficient și ieftin este esențial pentru realizarea promisiunii de hidrogen ca un combustibil curat și ecologic.

Posted: Jan 17, 2018

New nanocatalyst for hydrogen production

(Nanowerk News) A nanostructured composite material developed at UC Santa Cruz has shown impressive performance as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. An efficient, low-cost catalyst is essential for realizing the promise of hydrogen as a clean, environmentally friendly fuel.
Researchers led by Shaowei Chen, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, have been investigating the use of carbon-based nanostructured materials as catalysts for the reaction that generates hydrogen from water.
In one recent study, they obtained good results by incorporating ruthenium ions into a sheet-like nanostructure composed of carbon nitride. Performance was further improved by combining the ruthenium-doped carbon nitride with graphene, a sheet-like form of carbon, to form a layered composite.
„The bonding chemistry of ruthenium with nitrogen in these nanostructured materials plays a key role in the high catalytic performance,” Chen said. „We also showed that the stability of the catalyst is very good.”

The Front Cover shows the production of hydrogen gas when electrons and protons meet on ruthenium ion-complexed graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets supported on graphene surface. The image is based on an ancient Chinese legend of Niulang and Zhinü. Niulang was a human cowherd and Zhinü was a fairy from heaven. They fell in love with each other. Yet their love was banned by the fairy’s queen, who forcefully separated them by the Silver River. The lovers were only able to see each other once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, with the help of a flock of magpies that formed a bridge.The new findings were published in ChemSusChem(„Ruthenium Ion-Complexed Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets Supported on Reduced Graphene Oxide as High-Performance Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution”) and is featured on the cover of the January 10 issue. First author Yi Peng, a graduate student in Chen’s lab, led the study and designed the cover image.

Hydrogen has long been attractive as a clean and renewable fuel. A hydrogen fuel cell powering an electric vehicle, for example, emits only water vapor. Currently, however, hydrogen production still depends heavily on fossil fuels (mostly using steam to extract it from natural gas). Finding a low-cost, efficient way to extract hydrogen from water through electrolysis would be a major breakthrough. Electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power, which can be intermittent and unreliable, could then be easily stored and distributed as hydrogen fuel.

Currently, the most efficient catalysts for the electrochemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water are based on platinum, which is scarce and expensive. Carbon-based materials have shown promise, but their performance has not come close to that of platinum-based catalysts.

In the new composite material developed by Chen’s lab, the ruthenium ions embedded in the carbon nitride nanosheets change the distribution of electrons in the matrix, creating more active sites for the binding of protons to generate hydrogen. Adding graphene to the structure further enhances the redistribution of electrons.

„The graphene forms a sandwich structure with the carbon nitride nanosheets and results in further redistribution of electrons. This gives us greater proton reduction efficiencies,” Chen said.
The electrocatalytic performance of the composite was comparable to that of commercial platinum catalysts, the authors reported. Chen noted, however, that researchers still have a long way to go to achieve cheap and efficient hydrogen production.

Dispozitivele nanocompozabile ar putea salva miliarde în transportul maritim și în acvacultură(Wrinkled nanocoatings could save billions in shipping and aquaculture)

Noul material a fost testat legat de plasa de rechin din Golful Watson din Sydney, arătând că nanomaterialele erau eficiente pentru a rezista la biofoluarea într-un mediu marin.Suprafețele antifoulare sunt deformabile și transparente, ceea ce face ca aplicarea lor să fie ideală pentru camerele și senzorii subacvatici. a dezvoltat straturi de acoperire nanostructurate care au proprietati antivegetative fara a folosi componente toxice.

Posted: Jan 17, 2018

Wrinkled nanocoatings could save billions in shipping and aquaculture

(Nanowerk News) A team of chemistry researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute has developed nanostructured surface coatings that have anti-fouling properties without using any toxic components.
Biofouling – the build-up of damaging biological material – is a huge economic issue, costing the aquaculture and shipping industries billions of dollars a year in maintenance and extra fuel usage. It is estimated that the increased drag on ship hulls due to biofouling costs the shipping industry in Australia $320 million a year.
Since the banning of the toxic anti-fouling agent tributyltin, the need for new non-toxic methods to stop marine biofouling has been pressing.
Leader of the research team, Associate Professor Chiara Neto, said: “We are keen to understand how these surfaces work and also push the boundaries of their application, especially for energy efficiency. Slippery coatings are expected to be drag-reducing, which means that objects, such as ships, could move through water with much less energy required.”
The Nepenthes pitcher plant traps a lubricating layer in the structure of its peristome
The Nepenthes pitcher plant traps a lubricating layer in the structure of its peristome. The nanowrinkles developed by the team function in the same way, trapping a lubricating layer that stops the adhesion of bacteria and other marine organisms, and could have drag-reducing properties. (click on image to enlarge)
The new materials were tested tied to shark netting in Sydney’s Watson Bay, showing that the nanomaterials were efficient at resisting biofouling in a marine environment.
The research has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces („Marine Antifouling Behavior of Lubricant-Infused Nanowrinkled Polymeric Surfaces”).
The new coating uses ‘nanowrinkles’ inspired by the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plant. The plant traps a layer of water on the tiny structures around the rim of its opening. This creates a slippery layer causing insects to aquaplane on the surface, before they slip into the pitcher where they are digested.
Nanostructures utilise materials engineered at the scale of billionths of a metre – 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Associate Professor Neto’s group at Sydney Nano is developing nanoscale materials for future development in industry.
Biofouling can occur on any surface that is wet for a long period of time, for example aquaculture nets, marine sensors and cameras, and ship hulls. The slippery surface developed by the Neto group stops the initial adhesion of bacteria, inhibiting the formation of a biofilm from which larger marine fouling organisms can grow.
The interdisciplinary University of Sydney team included biofouling expert Professor Truis Smith-Palmer of St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, who was on sabbatical visit to the Neto group for a year, partially funded by the Faculty of Science scheme for visiting women.
In the lab, the slippery surfaces resisted almost all fouling from a common species of marine bacteria, while control Teflon samples without the lubricating layer were completely fouled. Not satisfied with testing the surfaces under highly controlled lab conditions with only one type of bacteria the team also tested the surfaces in the ocean, with the help of marine biologist Professor Ross Coleman.
Test surfaces were attached to swimming nets at Watsons Bay baths in Sydney Harbour for a period of seven weeks. In the much harsher marine environment, the slippery surfaces were still very efficient at resisting fouling.
The antifouling coatings are mouldable and transparent, making their application ideal for underwater cameras and sensors.
Source: University of Sydney

Schema de simulare inteligentă ajută la identificarea celor mai promițătoare compoziții ale materialelor 2D(Clever simulation scheme helps identify the most promising compositions of 2D materials)

Aliajele MXene sunt o clasă foarte recent descoperită de materiale 2D, care ar putea consta în oricare dintre milioane de aranjamente posibile ale metalelor de tranziție (precum molibden sau titan), carbon și azot. Aceste caracteristici se reflectă în denumirea „MXene” – „M” reprezintă atomi de metal, „X” reprezintă carbon și azot, în timp ce sufixul „ene” semnalează structura atomică 2D a materialelor.

Posted: Jan 16, 2018

Clever simulation scheme helps identify the most promising compositions of 2D materials

(Nanowerk News) A high-throughput scan of possible compositions for a new class of materials known as MXenes gives researchers invaluable direction for picking the best candidate from the millions of possible material recipes (ACS Nano, „High-throughput survey of ordering configurations in MXene alloys across compositions and temperatures”). The simulation study by researchers from the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing is a significant advancement in the field of MXenes, which have exciting potential in next-generation energy storage applications.
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a relatively new class of materials that display a wide range of unusual properties associated with their ability to constrain the movement of electrons and energy in a 2D plane. The MXene alloys are a very recently discovered class of 2D materials, which could conceivably consist of any of millions of possible arrangements of transition metals (like molybdenum or titanium), carbon and nitrogen. These characteristics are reflected in the name ‘MXene’ — the ‘M’ represents metal atoms, the ‘X’ denotes carbon and nitrogen, while the ‘ene’ suffix signals the materials’ 2D atomic structure.
“Since MXenes are new, there’s still much to be learned about their structure and properties,” says Teck Leong Tan from A*STAR. “As MXene alloys are formed by mixing different types of transition elements at different compositions, the alloying possibilities in MXenes are huge. So we developed a high-throughput computational method to predict the probable structures and stable phases of different MXene alloys across all compositional ranges and temperatures.”
Although there are many possible MXene alloy compositions, most will not be stable. The challenge faced by material scientists has been how to efficiently sweep through the huge number of alloy configurations to identify those with the lowest formation energy and hence highest stability. Conventional ‘first principles’ calculation approaches are too computationally intensive for such a scan to be feasible.
“Our approach uses what’s called a cluster expansion method to ‘learn’ the effective interactions between atoms, thus enabling quick evaluation of the formation energies of millions of MXene alloy structures,” says Tan.
The scan, conducted in collaboration with Drexel University in the US, revealed that molybdenum-based MXenes mixed with vanadium, tantalum, niobium or titanium, appear to form the most stable ordered structures. Titanium however tends to form stable ‘asymmetric’ ordered structures that were previously not considered viable.
“Our scan allows us to predict the structures of MXene alloys that are yet to be fabricated and estimate the likelihood of their fabrication from a thermodynamics viewpoint. And for known MXene alloys, our predicted structures are consistent with experimental results.”
Source: A*STAR

Perspective noi în adezivii subacvatici(New insights into underwater adhesives)

a prezentat un nou tip de adezivi subacvatici care sunt mai rezistenți decât clemele biologice naturale pe care mielurile le folosesc în mod normal pentru a adera la roci, creaturi de mare.Acest adeziv care blochează hidrogelul poate fi folosit ca un adeziv umed robust și versatil pentru o gamă largă de aplicații care necesită o aderență stabilă și puternică în diverse condiții umede

Posted: Jan 16, 2018

New insights into underwater adhesives

(Nanowerk News) A Korean research team, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has presented a new type of underwater adhesives that are tougher than the natural biological glues that mussels normally use to adhere to rocks, ships, and larger sea critters. This has attracted much attention as a technology that surpass the limits of conventional chemical-based adhesives that significantly lose adhesion capability when exposed to moisture or when reused.
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Hoon-Eui Jeong in the School of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering and his research team at UNIST. The findings of this study has been selected as the front cover of the December 2017 issue of ACS Macro Letters („Flexible and Shape-Reconfigurable Hydrogel Interlocking Adhesives for High Adhesion in Wet Environments Based on Anisotropic Swelling of Hydrogel Microstructures”). Besides, it has been featured as an ACS Editor’s Choice article.
Photograph of the fabricated flexible interlocking adhesive (left) and a SEM image (center) of a PEGDMA microhook arrays of the adhesive
Photograph of the fabricated flexible interlocking adhesive (left) and a SEM image (center) of the PEGDMA microhook arrays of the adhesive. Shown on right is the conceptual illustration of the reversible interlocking of the PEGDMA microhook arrays via the hydration-induced shape reconfiguration of the array for high adhesion under wet conditions. (Image: UNIST)
Wet adhesives are substances that are applied to the joining surfaces in the fluid state. According to the research team, stable adhesion between surfaces under wet conditions is highly desirable for many practical applications, particularly in the bioengineering and medical fields, where most surfaces are wet. However, limitations in complicated surface treatment and expensive protocols restrain the extensive use of these natural protein adhesives. Furthermore, they are typically permanent adhesives, and therefore, have limitations for application as a reversible and reusable adhesive.
Professor Jeong solved such issues using the simple hydrogel microstructures alone. In the study, the research team presented a wet-responsive, shape-reconfigurable, and flexible hydrogel adhesives that exhibit strong adhesion under wet environments based on reversible interlocking between reconfigurable microhook arrays.
The microhooks of the adhesive were designed to exhibit a unique structural configuration with protruding heads. The adhesion between the interlocked microhook arrays is greatly enhanced under wet conditions because of the hydration-triggered shape reconfiguration of the hydrogel microstructures. Furthermore, this water-responsive shape change was reversible and the microstructure can recover its original shape and size upon water removal by drying.
„These adhesives take the form of thin flexible films with bioinspired mushroom-shaped micropillars uniformly spread on the surface of microstructure,” says Hyun-Ha Park in the Ph.D. program of Mechanical Engineering, the first author of the study. „When the interlocked arrays are exposed to water, a notable volume expansion of a corresponding shape transformation of the hydrogel microhooks occurred by the swelling of the hydrogel, resulting in significantly increased wet adhesion both in the shear and normal directions.”
The research team notes, „In contrast to other wet binding systems, the current interlocking mechanism does not involve any complicated surface treatment or chemical moieties, thus allowing for a simple yet efficient route to strong and reversible wet adhesion in a cost-effective manner.”
„The surface of the conventional chemical adhesives softens or dissolves when exposed to moisture or water, which can lead to a significant decrease in adhesive bond strength or loss of adhesion over time,” says Professor Jeong. „In contrast to other wet binding systems, the current interlocking mechanism does not involve any complicated surface treatment or chemical moieties, thus allowing for a simple yet efficient route to strong and reversible wet adhesion in a cost-effective manner.”
„This wet-responsive and reversible hydrogel interlocking adhesive can serve as a robust and versatile wet adhesive for a broad range of applications which require stable and strong adhesion under diverse wet conditions,” Professor Jeong adds.
Source: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology