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... are the largest animals able to scale smooth vertical walls - even larger climbers would require unmanageably large sticky footpads. ... have implications for the feasibility of large-scale, gecko-like adhesives. A new study in PNAS shows that in climbing animals ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2016 - 5:50pm - 0 attachments

... well to surfaces, even allowing them to climb smooth walls.  "Using our method, we determined the van der Waals force for ... increases the electrical attraction." This gecko has good sticking power thanks to the van der Waals force. Photo Credit: ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2014 - 1:30pm - 0 attachments

If you've ever spent any time watching a gecko, you've been impressed by their uncanny ability to adhere to any surface ... people have wondered how geckos are able to stick to walls -- even Archimedes is known to have pondered this problem," said Alex ... we've found a simple, but ingenious, mechanism allows the gecko to switch back and forth between being sticky or not. Geckos' feet are by ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 10:26am - 0 attachments

... discovered that the tipping point which turns on the gecko's adhesive system is 10 degrees. Three of the six geckos studied applied ... disposal), and purposes as simple as hanging pictures on walls. (Ecology & Zoology) ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2009 - 3:18pm - 0 attachments

A Gecko's ability to climb sheer walls has long caught the attention of scientists and they've been trying for ... have recently come to grips with materials that mimic a gecko's ability to stick. Some new research in Science on this is ...

Article - Ashley Cox - Oct 15 2008 - 2:22am - 8 attachments

... announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 ... climbing. The ability of geckos to walk on vertical walls or even upside down is due to the presence of thousands of “setae” on ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2008 - 10:51pm - 1 attachment

... creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls. So-called "peel tests" are used extensively in manufacturing. ... creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls. The nanotube in this image has a length of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2008 - 6:28pm - 1 attachment

Building upon several years of research into the gecko's uncanny ability to climb sheer walls, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley writing in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2008 - 7:45pm - 3 attachments

... Mix the adhesive properties of the Mussel and the Gecko. Scientists report they have merged two of nature’s most elegant ... of gecko. As lizard fans have long marveled, geckos climb walls and other dry, steep surfaces not by producing a glue-like substance but ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2007 - 1:38pm - 0 attachments