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Switchable Stickiness

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an “optically switchable” material that changes from sticky to slippery when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light. Describing their work in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the chemists involved said that the material could have a wide variety of applications, from a protein filter for biological mixtures, to a tiny […]

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