{"id":730,"date":"2003-06-10T03:39:34","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T03:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"really-sticky-tape-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"really sticky tape invented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only relatively recently have scientists  discovered the secret behind the gecko&#8217;s extraordinary ability to hang  from a glass ceiling by a single toe: its feet are covered by millions  of tiny hairs, each of which act together to provide the animal with  amazing adhesive force. Now Andre Geim from the University of Manchester  in England and his colleagues reported online this month in <em>Nature  Materials<\/em> that they have mimicked nature and come up with a synthetic  equivalent, a re-usable dry adhesive they call gecko tape. The material  is made up of millions of miniscule artificial hairs, each less than two  microns high, attached to a soft, flexible backing. The engineering  challenge was, the researchers state, &#8220;non-trivial.&#8221; The hairs had to be  sufficiently flexible to attach to uneven surfaces, yet strong enough  not to break, curl, or bunch together. The authors calculate that a  palm-sized portion of the stuff could suspend a human from a ceiling. So  far, the research team has been able to fabricate less than a  postage-stamp-sized piece of the tape, due to the difficulty and expense  of the manufacturing process. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/10\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only relatively recently have scientists discovered the secret behind the gecko&#8217;s extraordinary ability to hang from a glass ceiling by a single toe: its feet are covered by millions of tiny hairs, each of which act together to provide the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}