TRY imagining everyday life without glue-shoes would fall apart, books disintegrate and furniture collapse. More surprisingly, solar panels would drop off satellites and planes would fall from the sky.
Adhesion is only one branch of zygology, the science of joining things together-other branches include welding, riveting and all forms of mechanical joining. Chemical welding, another name for the science of adhesion, is a many-faceted subject requiring an understanding of interatomic forces, chemical composition and physical properties of materials, and the forces to which a final structure will be subjected.
Glues have been used for thousands of years, and up to…
