(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists working to replicate the incredible stickiness of gecko lizard's feet have come up with a sort of tape that could allow people to climb, superhero-style, on glass ceilings and walls. Geckos ...

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.

Researchers studying geckos say millions of tiny hairs on the lizards' feet allow them to climb walls at astonishing speed. They think the knowledge could lead to a super-strong tape for human use.

Cross a gecko with a mussel and what comes out is a new type of adhesive tape that can repeatedly stick and restick, even underwater. Geckos and mussels both have astounding abilities to stick. The ...

I had recently seen a news story about Carnegie Mellon researchers creating artificial setae, but Manchester University has taken things a step further. For those who are unfamiliar what setae are, ...

When soldiers next need to scale a concrete wall, they should leave the gecko tape at home and opt for vacuum suction pads instead. Such a set-up, illustrated in the video below, took first place ...