A way to modify sticky tape inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, could make it 60 times stronger, but easy to peel off. newscientist.com/article/237952…

New paper on Electrically Conductive Liquid Metal Composite Adhesives. This SofT integrated composite with tacK through liquid metal (STICK-LM) adhesive can reversibly bond soft electronics and robotics. See it in Adv. Funct. Mater. Advanced Sci News -onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Thanks to Hoon Eui Jeong for writing a News & Views article on our recent work on metamaterial adhesives! See it in Nature Materials

Come join us at Virginia Tech! Check out the open tenure-track faculty position in design, materials, & manufacturing in Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

See our REVIEW on Bioinspired materials for underwater adhesion with pathways to switchability. Can we beat nature? See our thoughts. Enjoyed reviewing this interdisciplinary topic with Grace Gu, Bruce Lee, Rong Long, and their groups! dlvr.it/SwdhK5

New paper on highly electrically conductive liquid metal adhesives for robust integration of rigid components onto flexible and stretchable substrates for hybrid and soft devices. See it in Adv. Funct. Mater. Advanced Sci News - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Do you produce and/or utilize adhesives and sealants? Our annual Adhesion Science Short Course will be a great fit for you! Scan the QR code below to get started on the registration process!

Great to visit and give a seminar in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech today! Fantastic discussions with students and faculty, including my host Michael Bartlett Michael Bartlett

Check out our new paper on Kuttsukigami: Sticky Sheet Design with Andrew Croll andrew croll! We use adhesion to sculpt thin sheets in a broad range of materials for a versatile and reconfigurable thin-sheet engineering design scheme. See it in Soft Matter and featured on the cover!

See our new article "At the breaking point" out in Nature Physics Enjoyed writing this as a News & Views for some interesting work on fracture and toughness from Kolinski et al EPFL School of Engineering nature.com/articles/s4156…

New paper on direct ink write (DIW) printing of a liquid metal-Ag biphasic conductive ink. We enhance the electrical conductivity of stretchable conductors by elongating liquid metal droplets during printing for soft electronics. See it in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out the SPECIAL ISSUE on liquid metal in Advanced Functional Materials Enjoyed co-guest editing with DickeyGroup, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, and Aaron Ohta Big thanks to the authors, reviewers, and editors for 49 great papers See the editorial here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

A special issue focused on liquid metals research A nice collection of impressive research in "Advanced Materials Technologies" Guest editors Aaron Ohta, Michael Bartlett, and Michael Dickey and myself Michael Bartlett DickeyGroup onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

A postdoc position in the area of soft electronics and integration is immediately available in my group at #VirginiaTech. The research will focus on fabrication, evaluation, and implementation of liquid metal-based soft devices. Please share! Apply: careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

Want electronics that are robust in harsh, underwater environments? Check out our work towards this goal on Liquid metal‐elastomer composites for water‐resilient soft electronics published in the Polymer Science & Engineering Dept @ UMass Amherst special issue in Journal of Polymer Science ! doi.org/10.1002/pol.20…