Patent ID: 8241458

Claim:
A method for disbonding an adhesive bond between an electric-field-responsive material and a substrate, which method comprises applying an electric field to reduce the strength and integrity of the adhesive bond wherein the electric-field-responsive material comprises a polymeric material and a solvent, said electric-field-reponsive material being selected from the group consisting of a gel-forming or jelly-forming solvent-containing polymer material, a biological fluid, a biomembrane, a tissue, a scaffold and a glue, and a component of the electric-field-responsive material is selected from the group consisting of agar, agarose, pectin, guar gum, gelatin, chitin, chitosan, starch, lignin, proteins and lipids of cell membranes, lipid bilayers, the polar headgroups of the lipids, polysaccharides, polyhydroxyalkanoates, proteins and other biopolymers.