The hydration lubrication paradigm, whereby hydration layers are both strongly held by the
charges they surround, and so can support large pressures without being squeezed out, and …

In this review, we discuss the concept of bioinspired lubrication using novel polymeric
structures, which has led to producing a myriad of new systems with effective and …

Long-ranged forces between surfaces in a liquid control effects from colloid stability to
biolubrication, and can be modified either by steric factors due to flexible polymers, or by …

Macromolecules, which adsorb or intrinsically form boundary layers at surfaces sliding past
each other in aqueous media, are ubiquitous both in technology and in biological systems …

PERSPECTIVES to permeate into the network, as does cartilage. Among the many
hydrogels that have been investigated, those with brush-like polymer chains at their surfaces …

We describe robustly anchored triblock copolymers that adopt loop conformations on
surfaces and endow them with unprecedented lubricating and antifouling properties. The …

We present a general strategy for facile synthesis of 2D macromolecular brushes. The
ultraflat one-atomic layer of graphene oxide with micrometer-scale sheet topology was …

Nanoparticle (NP) superstructures are important in the creation of smart materials with new
functionalities. Most of the current examples of complex NP systems, such as bioconjugates …

Over the last half-century, direct measurements of surface forces have been instrumental in
the exploration of a multitude of phenomena in liquid, soft, and biological matter …

Force–distance measurements between supported lipid bilayers mimicking the cytoplasmic
surface of myelin at various surface coverages of myelin basic protein (MBP) indicate that …