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To: kinkblot who wrote (62)	6/30/2003 1:48:47 PM
From: kinkblot	of 75

Nature Materials Update on synthetic gecko-tape [registration required to view the link; registration gets you free limited online access to all Nature Publishing Group web sites] nature.com Mechanism of action: On dry surfaces the hairs are subject to weak attractions called van der Waals forces that occur between molecules. On wet ones, suction-like capillary action grips the hairs, Geim's team believes. According to the numbers in the abstract, there must be about one hundred million hairs per square centimeter of gecko toe. WT

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