Sentences with phrase «inspired adhesive»

Interface Carpet Ray Anderson made an amazing speech at the plenary on opening day of Bioneers, highlighting how his company has used biomimicry to figure out better, cleaner practices, from gecko - inspired adhesive methods to nature's pallet - inspired designs that reduce waste.

Creator of a gecko - inspired adhesive that made headlines four years ago, Geim is the type of researcher who likes to try something totally new every few years.

«Scaling to new heights with gecko - inspired adhesive.»

Li's slug - inspired adhesive takes a similar approach.

Bringing animal - inspired adhesives into the human body won't necessarily be a simple task, though.

Secondly, the researchers focused on distributing forces on surfaces that aren't flat to optimize the performance of gecko - inspired adhesives.

«Gecko - inspired adhesives help soft robotic fingers get a better grip.»

Hawkes, study coauthor Mark R. Cutkosky and colleagues, who had worked on an initial stage of the Z - man project, developed a wall - climbing robot called Stickybot, which relied on gecko - inspired adhesives.

Tiny hairs on gecko toes do a great job of keeping the little lizards from dropping off a ceiling, but gecko - inspired adhesives can get overwhelmed by human - sized burdens.

Not exact matches

Bioengineers inspired by slug secretions have created an adhesive that sticks to even wet biological tissues.

OZY INSPIRATION Gelatinous slug slime inspired a new adhesive, which sticks strongly to wet surfaces such as this pig heart.

Inspired by geckos» sticky feet, scientists are developing adhesive tapes — by rooting columns of nanotubes in flexible polymer pieces — that stick many times better than a gecko's foot.

STICK TEST Researchers put an adhesive inspired by the chemical structure of slug slime through its paces.

Water - borne endovascular embolics inspired by the undersea adhesive of marine sandcastle worm.

Sun decided to study a fraction of the peptide sequence that gave the glue its adhesive ability by attaching a heterogeneous hydrophilic peptide segment inspired by spider silk proteins.

A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University has created a super-strong «tough adhesive» that is biocompatible and binds to tissues with a strength comparable to the body's own resilient cartilage, even when they're wet.

A new, flexible adhesive material inspired by the glue secreted by slugs adheres to biological tissues (even when wet) without causing toxicity, and can be formed into either sheets (teal blue) or custom shapes (dark blue).

Hawkes worked with the basic design concept of a gripping pad covered with rows of postage stamp — sized tiles of a gecko - inspired silicone adhesive nicknamed PDMS.

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.

Human climbing with efficiently scaled gecko - inspired dry adhesives.

Inspired by creepy crawly creatures like the slug and the sandcastle worm, a team of scientists has created a surgical adhesive that could safely seal up the hearts of babies born with congenital heart defects.

In the quest to develop better ways of sealing wounds, scientists have created adhesives inspired by porcupine quills, mussels and slugs.

Interact with a leopard gecko and discover how they have inspired the development of amazingly strong adhesive.