This paper addresses the viscoelastic behaviour of a commercially available cold-curing structural epoxy adhesive, under different preparation, curing and hygrothermal conditions. The main parameters studied were preparation method (influence degassing temperature initial curing), creep stress level, Tensile tests last up to 2400 h. Test results revealed that has great influence on tensile prop...

Cell adhesive and rheological properties play a very important role in cell transmigration through the endothelial barrier, in particular in the case of inflammation (leukocytes) or cancer metastasis (cancer cells). In order to characterize cell viscoelastic properties, we have designed a force spectrometer (AFM) which can stretch cells thereby allowing measurement of their rheological properti...

If geckos had not evolved, it is possible that humans would never have invented adhesive nanostructures. Geckos use millions of adhesive setae on their toes to climb vertical surfaces at speeds of over 1ms-1. Climbing presents a significant challenge for an adhesive in requiring both strong attachment and easy rapid removal. Conventional pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) are either strong and...

Bioadhesives have drawn increasing interest in recent years, owing to their eco-friendly, biocompatible and biodegradable nature. As a typical bioadhesive, sticky exudate observed on the stalked glands of sundew plants aids in the capture of insects and this viscoelastic adhesive has triggered extensive interests in revealing the implied adhesion mechanisms. Despite the significant progress tha...

This review focuses upon the measurement of force, indentation, and deformation with the atomic force microscope (AFM). Measurement and theory for elastic and viscoelastic particles and substrates are covered, as well as for deformable fluid drops and bubbles. A brief review is given of papers that use tapping mode imaging, normal and lateral force modulation, noise spectra, and indentation mea...

In this paper a Semi-Analytical Finite Element (SAFE) method for modeling wave propagation in waveguides of arbitrary cross-section is discussed. The method requires the finite element discretization of the cross-section of the waveguide by assuming harmonic motion along the wave propagation direction. The general SAFE technique is extended to account for viscoelastic material damping by allowi...

Introduction: In order to determine the real efficacy and durability of polymeric dental adhesives, thorough clinical testing is necessary. However, in practice, long-term clinical testing is expensive and commercial adhesive materials are constantly undergoing change so that the clinical testing necessary to evaluate their long-term properties and success rates (typically four years) becomes i...

BACKGROUND Tissue organization during embryonic development and wound healing depends on the ability of cells on the one hand to exchange adhesive bonds during active rearrangement and on the other to become fixed in place as tissue homeostasis is reached. Cells achieve these contradictory tasks by regulating either cell-cell adhesive bonds, mediated by cadherins, or cell-extracellular matrix (...