WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Your everyday permanent markers, glue sticks and packing tape may offer a surprisingly low-tech solution to a long-standing nuisance in the manufacturing industry: Making soft ...

What makes some plastics stick to metal without any glue? Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have peered into the ...

A new type of metallic glue can bond two pieces of metal together at room temperature. Initial testing shows that the solidified glue is thermally and electrically conductive, and the bond is about as ...

Almost all electronics in our lives—computers, stereos, toasters—contain printed circuit boards upon which different components are soldered. This soldering is ...

A new type of 3D-printed adhesive could change how we join materials together. So far, scientists have developed two new methods that can create extremely strong bonds at the pore level, eliminating ...