Sentences with phrase «as gecko feet»

A phenomenon called van der Waals forces, named for Nobel Prize - winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, explains the non-permanent stickiness of the grippers, as well as gecko feet.

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This force was almost as strong as that of the adhesion between a gecko's foot and the surface, suggesting that the electrostatic force is the dominant attractive force (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi.org/tns).

To find out, the team measured the electric charge on geckos» feet as they gently dragged them across slippery surfaces Teflon and PDMS, a silicone rubber.

Even more compelling, Greaney said, is the minimal amount of energy expended in the whole process, as a gecko can race across a ceiling with millions of little hairy contact points on its feet turning sticky and non-sticky in a precisely integrated process.

Creatures such as the small adhesive - footed geckos from Indonesia and Madagascar, colourful Malagasy frogs, and American box turtles are the «bread and butter» of reputable dealers, says Kamuran Tepedelen, of Bushmaster Reptiles in Boulder, Colorado.

Side - views of a gecko - inspired wall - climber (left) shows hand - held plates of adhesive tiles sticking against a wall as the climber's foot bears down on a step dangling from the plate.

Lead author Jeffrey Karp, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has a habit of looking to the natural world for adhesive ideas, such as gravity - defying gecko feet or grasping porcupine needles.

Further, as in natural gecko feet, the skin is woven into a synthetic «tendon,» yielding a design that plays a key role in maintaining stiffness and rotational freedom, the researchers explain.

At home, Dr. Quigley's family includes 3 dogs, 2 cats, a fish, a Leopard gecko, a yellow foot tortoise and whatever other creatures Providence Wildlife Rehabilitation gets, as she is also actively involved with this rescue organization.

In 1996 I won an important award in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, with a photograph of web - footed geckos in the Namib Desert, and subsequently qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society with twenty photographs of reptiles and amphibians.