As I dashed through my morning email, I stopped to look at this video showing the stickiness of an adhesive made of carbon nanotubes. It is designed to mimic the toes of a gecko, which are about as sticky as you get and re-usable, too.
The captioning on the video, which was produced by Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was rather disappointing. Look for the words sticked and continueous.
Dumn.
2 comments:
'Science imitates nature' is always the best way to go IMHO. Good for them for finding the properties of a gecko's stickiness.
I am concerned about some other things besides the incorrect spelling and poor grammer. Is it really water in that container? Is the substance on that nanotube poisonous? Otherwise, why does the scientist wear gloves when playing with water in a glass beaker and a sticky substance on a nanotube?
Also, look at the reflection of the scientist in the video. S/he keeps ducking down out of sight as though the whole experiment is very dangerous and risky. What aren't they telling us in this video?
I noticed the reflections too. They seem to be using stop-motion photography, since the poor guy is jerking around so much. Perhaps he’s a jerk.
The glove is mysterious. Maybe the imitation gecko toe is so unyieldingly adhesive he doesn’t want to risk having it stick to himself! Remember Krazy Glue? People had to go to emergency rooms to get their eyelids, lips, and other parts unstuck till they learned to follow the instructions carefully.
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