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From: Eirikur Hallgrimsson <eh@mad.scientist.com>
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To: FoRK <FoRK@xent.com>
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Subject: Gecko adhesion finally sussed.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:24:00 -0400
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(Via Robot Wisdom) Maybe you UC folk know these people?
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/lcc-sph082202.php
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Working at Lewis & Clark College, the University of California at Berkeley,
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the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Stanford University,
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the interdisciplinary team:
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* confirmed speculation that the gecko's amazing climbing ability
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depends on weak molecular attractive forces called van der Waals forces,
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* rejected a competing model based on the adhesion chemistry of water
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molecules, and
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* discovered that the gecko's adhesive depends on geometry, not surface
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chemistry. In other words, the size and shape of the tips of gecko foot
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hairs--not what they are made of--determine the gecko's stickiness.
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To verify its experimental and theoretical results, the gecko group then
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used its new data to fabricate prototype synthetic foot-hair tips from two
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different materials.
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"Both artificial setal tips stuck as predicted," notes Autumn, assistant
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professor of biology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. "Our
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initial prototypes open the door to manufacturing the first biologically
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inspired dry, adhesive microstructures, which can have widespread
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applications."
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