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Why soft contacts are stickier when breaking than when making them
Antoine Sanner, Nityanshu Kumar, Ali Dhinojwala +2
Insects, pick-and-place manufacturing, engineered adhesives, and soft robots employ soft materials to stick to surfaces even in the presence of roughness. Experiments show that the…
cond-mat.soft2023
Humidity-induced glass transition of a polyelectrolyte brush creates switchable friction in air
Stephen Merriman, Saranshu Singla, Ali Dhinojwala
Polymer brushes have found extensive applications as responsive surfaces, particularly in achieving tunable friction in solvent environments. Despite recent interest in extending t…