I began by cutting out a maple
leaf of adhesive vinyl with my Cricut Explore.
Not exact matches
Photograph
of the fabricated flexible interlocking
adhesive (
left) and a SEM image (center)
of the PEGDMA microhook arrays
of the
adhesive.
Benyus says the strategy has already yielded a wide range
of new products that may replicate nature's successes: ceramics with the strength and toughness
of abalone shells, self - assembling computer chips that form by processes similar to the way that tooth enamel grows,
adhesives that mimic the glue that mussels use to anchor themselves in place, and self - cleaning plastics based on the structure
of a lotus
leaf.
The study, recently published in the Journal
of the Royal Society Interface, reports there are circumstances — such as when geckos fear for their lives, leap into the air and are forced to grab on to a
leaf below — when they need every bit
of that fabled
adhesive ability, and sometimes it's not enough.
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.
Michigan Tech's Bruce P. Lee borrowed chemistry found in the
adhesive proteins
of mussels,
left, to make his hydrogel actuator.
Shortly after seven hours, Milner pitted the 03 Corvette for a new windshield after the tearoffs had blown off,
leaving a layer
of sticky
adhesive.
I recovered both
of the pictures by stapling them with
left over fabric from the embroidery hoops and then used velcro
adhesive to adhere the giant clothespins.
Adhere your
leaves onto individual pieces
of white or cream card stock using your choice
of adhesive.
What a cute idea, do those
adhesive strips
leave any marks on the SS when you remove them??? I would hate to have 2 marks on the front
of my fridge: -LRB-
I used small command hooks to hang these baskets above the hoses on the
left side
of my cabinet, and I cut more labels from
adhesive vinyl using my Cricut to make it clear what belongs in each basket.