{"id":31985,"date":"2016-11-16T23:34:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/carbon-nanotube-dry-adhesive-holds-in-extreme-cold-strengthens-in-extreme-heat"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:19:37","slug":"carbon-nanotube-dry-adhesive-holds-in-extreme-cold-strengthens-in-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/carbon-nanotube-dry-adhesive-holds-in-extreme-cold-strengthens-in-extreme-heat","title":{"rendered":"Carbon nanotube dry adhesive holds in extreme cold, strengthens in extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-nanotube-dry-adhesive-holds-in-extreme-cold-strengthens-in-extreme-heat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Dayton Air Force Research Laboratory and China have developed a new dry adhesive that bonds in extreme temperatures\u2014a quality that could make the product ideal for space exploration and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The gecko-inspired adhesive loses no traction in temperatures as cold as liquid nitrogen or as hot as molten silver, and actually gets stickier as heat increases, the researchers report.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which builds on earlier development of a single-sided dry adhesive tape based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, is published in the journal Nature Communications (\u201cCarbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range\u201d). As far as the researchers know, no other dry adhesive is capable of working at such temperature extremes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=45096.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=45096.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Dayton Air Force Research Laboratory and China have developed a new dry adhesive that bonds in extreme temperatures\u2014a quality that could make the product ideal for space exploration and beyond. The gecko-inspired adhesive loses no traction in temperatures as cold as liquid nitrogen or as hot as molten silver, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49583,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions\/49583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}