{"id":97455,"date":"2019-10-15T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/unique-dendritic-sticky-particles-formed-by-harnessing-liquid-chaos"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:43:04","slug":"unique-dendritic-sticky-particles-formed-by-harnessing-liquid-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/unique-dendritic-sticky-particles-formed-by-harnessing-liquid-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Unique dendritic sticky particles formed by harnessing \u2018liquid chaos\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unique-dendritic-sticky-particles-formed-by-harnessing-liquid-chaos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from North Carolina State University shows that unique materials with distinct properties akin to those of gecko feet\u2014the ability to stick to just about any surface\u2014can be created by harnessing liquid-driven chaos to produce soft polymer microparticles with hierarchical branching on the micro- and nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, described in the journal <i>Nature Materials<\/i>, hold the potential for advances in gels, pastes, foods, nonwovens and coatings, among other formulations.<\/p>\n<p>The soft dendritic particle materials with unique adhesive and structure-building properties can be created from a variety of polymers precipitated from solutions under special conditions, says Orlin Velev, S. Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State and corresponding author of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from North Carolina State University shows that unique materials with distinct properties akin to those of gecko feet\u2014the ability to stick to just about any surface\u2014can be created by harnessing liquid-driven chaos to produce soft polymer microparticles with hierarchical branching on the micro- and nanoscale. The findings, described in the journal Nature Materials, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1506,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-food","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97455","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}