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Published online 11 October 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.153
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Film gets sticky by resisting unsticking
A reusable adhesive works by increasing the energy needed to unpeel it. Nature News checks out how it works.
In Science today, Animangsu Ghatak and colleagues at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur describe a type of reusable adhesive film that was inspired by the way that animals and insects cling to surfaces1. The material has the ‘lift-and-stick-again’ stickiness that enables geckos and flies to walk up walls and across ceilings.
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