Intelligent glue
Haeshin Lee
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Haeshin Lee: Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology (WCU), and the Molecular-level Interface Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea. haeshin@kaist.ac.kr
Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7296, 298-299
Abstract:
Spiders' webs are coated with microscopic droplets of glue, but the properties of this adhesive were unclear. It has now been found that the glue's stretchiness underpins its role in catching flies.
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/465298a
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