ADHESIVES NANOTECHNOLOGY FEATURE
March 1st, 2006
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
IN the rapidly expanding world of nanotechnology (a nano is one billionth of a metre), more and more applications for the adhesives industry are being developed. Many of these inventions are sophisticated, even futuristic in scope, although bizarrely some advances are linked to natural phenomena, with the sector owing a lot of the latest groundbreaking research to the humble gecko.
Each of the small lizard's five-toed feet is covered with microscopic elastic hairs called setae, which are themselves split at the ends to form a forest ...
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