Gecko feet have inspired many intriguing applications, including a sticky tape, adhesives, a “stickybot” climbing robot, and even a strapless bra design. Now, scientists have developed a new kind of ...

A solution to injuries from slips and falls may be found underfoot — literally. The footpads of geckos have hydrophilic (water-loving) mechanisms that allow the little animals to easily move over ...

(a) The adhesive fibril is made of SMPs with switchable material between the soft rubber-phase and stiff glass-phase, and the fibril radius is designed so that the adhesion regime is in the JKR-like ...