UC Berkeley Professor Robert Full leads the lab that developed the adhesive. He demonstrated the climbing capabilities of gecko-inspired materials in a TED talk, sharing footage of climbers ...

Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report using silicone rubber enhanced with zirconia nanoparticles to create a gecko-inspired slip-resistant polymer. They say the material, which ...

Inspired by the feet of the gecko lizard, researchers have tweaked a conventional plasma etching chamber so that it can make reusable adhesives that could have applications in the semiconductor ...

Bioinspired adhesive nanomaterials, such as gecko-inspired adhesive tapes and robotics grippers, mimic this hierarchical structure using nanofabricated arrays of polymer or carbon nanotube fibers to ...

In a branch of science called biological-inspired design, many scientists and engineers are learning from the gecko by creating new materials that can stick to other materials as efficiently as the ...

Gecko feet have inspired many intriguing applications, including a sticky tape, adhesives, a "stickybot" climbing robot, and even a strapless bra design. Now, scientists have developed a new kind ...