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Professor Xuanhe Zhao designs smooth gel coating for medical materials

July 18, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao recently designed a new soft and slippery yet tough coating that can be applied to plastic and rubber materials such as surgical tubing. The coating makes medical […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates hydrogel robots

February 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao and Mechanical Engineering graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk have created gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The robots are almost invisible […]

Hydrogel superglue is 90 percent water

November 10, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office New “water adhesive” is tougher than natural adhesives employed by mussels and barnacles. Nature has developed innovative ways to solve a sticky challenge: Mussels and barnacles stubbornly glue themselves to cliff faces, ship […]