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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues,...
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- Blog Source: naacal.blogspot.comNow US chemists claim to have made one based on nanotubes that it is 10 times stickier than some gecko feet. Even more impressively, like a real gecko foot, it can also be easily unstuck with a tug in the right direction. ...
- Blog Source: www.nanovip.comUsing these carbon tubes - which by themselves are considerably stronger than the hairs on gecko feet - scientists have created a dry adhesive (that is, a non-chemical adhesive, like Velcro) which is actually superior to the foot of the ...
- Blog Source: blogs.discovermagazine.comResearchers have developed a nanotech superglue modeled on the minute structures on gecko feet that allow the lizards to scamper up sheer surfaces. They say the new glue is three times stronger than previous gecko-inspired glues, ...
- Blog Source: chisblassternardone.blogspot.comGecko tape: Arrays of carbon nanotubes with a vertically aligned section (lower left) and a branched, tangled upper layer (lower right) mimic the structures of gecko feet but are 10 times more adhesive. Credit: Science/AAAS. Multimedia ...
- Blog Source: nextbigfuture.comThe ability of gecko lizards to adhere to a vertical solid surface comes from their remarkable feet with aligned microscopic elastic hairs. By using carbon nanotube arrays that are dominated by a straight body segment but with curly ...
- Blog Source: sciencepal.blogspot.comThe US team, led by Zhong Lin Wang of Georgia Institute of Technology, has made a structure that looks at least similar to gecko feet through chemical vapour deposition of an ethyne–hydrogen–argon gas over a silicon substrate. ...
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