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August 24th, 2005

Nanotube structures stickier than gecko feet

Abstract:
... researchers from the University of Akron, Ohio, have developed synthetic hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) that have adhesion forces 200 times higher than those observed with gecko foot-hairs.

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