TY - BOOK AU - Winkless,Laurie TI - Sticky: the secret science of surfaces SN - 9781472950833 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Sigma KW - Surfaces (Technology) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page [313]-326) and index; 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 -