ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Ultrasensitive probing of wet adhesion and charge dynamics in soft materials
Soft wet adhesion is a physical phenomenon exploited by organisms that live in wet environments to allow them to adhere to surfaces despite charge barriers that typically hinder adhesion. The physics underpinning soft wet adhesion has been studied for over a century. The interplay between charge and adhesion dynamics in soft adhesion is strongly complicated by non-linear and time-dependent effects for different compression rates and environmental conditions and remains poorly understood due to the lack of simultaneous charge and force-based experiments on pairwise interactions in dynamic conditions. Understanding charge-adhesion interplay is important for novel biomedical and engineering…
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