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Adhesion with spheres

Caption: Illustration of the adhesive and particle trapping potential of the helically assembling bristle. Shown: Low-magnification SEM showing the capture of the 2.5-mm polystyrene spheres. Scale bar, 10 mm.

Credit: Courtesy of Aizenberg lab at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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