(Nanowerk News) To solve practical issues, sometimes all we have to do is study nature. An often quoted example is that of the gecko, a small animal known for the phenomenal adhesive strength in its ...

A professor at UC Berkeley has invented a tape-like substance that has so much adhesive strength that a person clothed in such a sticky suit could conceivably scale a building like Spider-Man. But ...

Geckos are able to walk upside down across glass ceilings because of the arrays of submicron-scale hairs on their feet. Now, a team of scientists from the Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology at ...

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 ...

Geckos are amazing creatures, with the ability to walk on and stick to all manner of surfaces. If you’ve ever woken up to see lizards on your ceiling, you’re already familiar with their capabilities.

Geckos are amazing creatures, with the ability to walk on and stick to all manner of surfaces. If you’ve ever woken up to see lizards on your ceiling, you’re already familiar with their capabilities.

The substance, described in the journal Nature Materials, consists of a tape covered with a dense array of microscopic hairs -- much like the hairs covering the soles of a gecko’s feet. The climbing ...

A new material relies on millions of tiny plastic fibers that can grip solids as the fabric slides across them, then quickly release those objects when pulled away vertically. The technology is based ...

Link: Gecko-inspired tape sticks to Teflon. ....Unbundled, their nanotube tape was nearly as adhesive as a live gecko, but as these same tubes were clustered into bundles, their strength went up. By ...

Berkeley -- A new anti-sliding adhesive developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, may be the closest man-made material yet to mimic the remarkable gecko toe hairs that allow ...

Duct tape has been the answer to every sticky emergency since it was invented. But an interdisciplinary team of researchers may have created some competition for the universal adhesive. Scientists ...