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Michael Bartlett

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The Soft Materials and Structures Lab studies and creates soft materials with advanced properties and function at @Virginia_tech.

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New paper introducing metamaterial adhesives that achieve strong yet releasable adhesion. Programmed cuts force cracks to propagate BACKWARDS for enhanced adhesion, while allowing normal, forward crack growth for easy release. In Nature Materials at

New paper introducing metamaterial adhesives that achieve strong yet releasable adhesion. Programmed cuts force cracks to propagate BACKWARDS for enhanced adhesion, while allowing normal, forward crack growth for easy release. In Nature Materials at

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