Nanotube Adhesive Sticks Better Than a Gecko's Foot.

M2 PRESSWIRE-19 June 2007-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Nanotube Adhesive Sticks Better Than a Gecko's Foot(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18062007 Troy, N.Y., and Akron, Ohio -- Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have taken one sticky step in the right direction, creating synthetic "gecko tape" with four times the sticking power of the real thing. In a paper published in the June ...

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