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New Hydrogel Is So Sticky It Can Hold a Rubber Duck to a Rock Through Crashing Ocean Waves
One afternoon on the coast of Hokkaido, a small rubber duck bobbed in the waves, anchored to a seaside rock. It wasn’t tethered with screws or cement. Instead, it clung there because of a transparent, ...
A rubber duck attached to a seaside rock using the hydrogel as a glue withstood repeated ocean tides and wave impacts, demonstrating its adhesive strength. (Video provided by WPI-ICReDD, Hokkaido ...
A photograph of a rubber duck adhered to a seaside rock using novel hydrogel technology withstanding repeated ocean tides and wave impacts. (Photo: WPI-ICReDD, Hokkaido University) This image can be ...
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