{"id":171916,"date":"2023-09-13T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/plant-based-glue-bonds-even-better-when-placed-underwater"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:24:31","slug":"plant-based-glue-bonds-even-better-when-placed-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/plant-based-glue-bonds-even-better-when-placed-underwater","title":{"rendered":"Plant-based glue bonds even better when placed underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plant-based-glue-bonds-even-better-when-placed-underwater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting glue to stick in dry conditions is relatively easy, but having it maintain a bond underwater is much more difficult. That said, a new bio-based glue not only works underwater, it actually gets <i>stronger<\/i> when immersed.<\/p>\n<p>The nontoxic adhesive is being developed by Assoc. Prof. Gudrun Schmidt and colleagues at Indiana\u2019s Purdue University. It\u2019s made mainly of zein \u2013 which is a protein extracted from corn \u2013 and tannic acid, which is obtained from galls in oak tree bark.<\/p>\n<p>When the glue is sandwiched between two objects which are subsequently placed underwater, a thin skin initially forms on it. That skin can be broken simply by piercing it with a finger or something similarly pokey. The surrounding water is then able to get into the glue, increasing its bond strength. Maximum bonding takes place at a water temperature of about 30 \u00baC (86 \u00baF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting glue to stick in dry conditions is relatively easy, but having it maintain a bond underwater is much more difficult. That said, a new bio-based glue not only works underwater, it actually gets stronger when immersed. The nontoxic adhesive is being developed by Assoc. Prof. Gudrun Schmidt and colleagues at Indiana\u2019s Purdue University. It\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}