Chemists used waste cooking oil to create a sustainable, super-sticky adhesive that's strong enough to hold up hundreds of ...

Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn ...

To complete your project the right way, you need to make sure you're using the correct adhesive. Chances are that you're ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Animals that cling to walls and walk on ceilings owe this ability to micro- and nanoscale attachment elements. The highest adhesion forces are encountered in geckos. For centuries ...

Conventional petroleum-based adhesives rely heavily on the petrochemical industry and pose environmental risks due to harmful ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – You cannot make glue out of a ham sandwich – but you may be able to use the components of that food to create a strong adhesive. That’s the thinking behind technology developed ...

Louisiana woman Tessica Brown has brought the dangers of ultra-strong adhesives to light after going viral on TikTok for documenting the struggles she suffered from styling her hair with Gorilla Glue.

Sticky slug mucus has been used to create a glue that can stop internal bleeding by binding biological tissues together—even when they are wet. Scientists tested the adhesive on a range of tissues, ...

The promise of reusable sticky things, from Post-it Notes to Blu Tack, has never quite been fulfilled. They're just never quite as sticky the second time around, or the third. But now, a team of ...