A team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has developed a lipid-based boundary-lubricated hydrogel that is slipperier than water-based hydrogels. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their inspiration for the new kind of hydrogel and how well it performed when tested. Tannin Schmidt with the University of Connecticut Health Center’s School of Dental Medicine has published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the work by the team on this new effort and suggesting possible uses for it.
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Source: Phys.org