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Issue: August 2007, page: 4
Adhesive uses nanotubes to stick like aGecko’s foot
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron, both USA, have developed a process for making polymer surfaces covered with carbon nanotube hairs, imitating the thousands ofmicroscopic hairs on a gecko’s footpad.
