TY - BOOK AU - Winkless,Laurie TI - Sticky: the secret science of surfaces SN - 9781472950833 U1 - 620/.44 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Sigma KW - Surfaces (Technology) KW - Friction KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General) KW - Surfaces (Technologie) KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 313-326) and index; Hello -- To stick or not to stick -- A gecko's grip -- Gone swimming -- Flying high -- Hit the road -- These shaky isles -- Break the ice -- The human touch -- Close contact N2 - "In Sticky, Laurie Winkless explores some of the ways that friction shapes both the manufactured and natural worlds, and describes how our understanding of surface science has given us an ability to manipulate stickiness, down to the level of a single atom"-- ER -