How to suck like an octopus

Jonathan J. Wilker ()
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Jonathan J. Wilker: Purdue University

Nature, 2017, vol. 546, issue 7658, 358-359

Abstract: Rubber sheets that reversibly bind and release substrates have been made by copying a subtlety in the shape of octopus suckers. The findings reveal how macro-scale biological structures can influence function. See Letter p.396

Date: 2017
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