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Contact: Joshua A. Chamot
jchamot@nsf.gov
703-292-7730
National Science Foundation
Caption: Researchers have created a gecko-inspired adhesive with 10 times the stickiness of a gecko's foot, by combining vertically aligned nanotubes with curly spaghetti-like nanotubes.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation after Liangti Qu et al., Science 10/10/2008
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