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Paul Steen and Michael Vogel’s surface tension-based adhesive device with a lego man payload. The researchers demonstrate a larger version of their switchable adhesive device in this video. The rapid adhesion mechanism could lead to such applications as shoes or gloves that stick and unstick to walls. (Credit: Michael Vogel)
CORNELL (US)—A palm-sized device that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond might one day make it possible for mere mortals to climb walls like Spider-Man. Continue…
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High-speed images reveal essence of liquid
Simulation of a granular stream in free fall, breaking into particle clusters like droplets in a stream of water falling from a faucet. As in ordinary liquids, weak attractive forces drive the clustering, but result here in a novel, ultra-low surface tension fluid. (Credit: University of Chicago)
