The News
Extraordinarily sticky tape is developed
AKRON, Ohio, June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a flexible synthetic adhesive tape that is extraordinarily "sticky" that can adhere to a wide variety of materials.
Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and the University of Akron in Ohio said their so-called "gecko tape" has four times the sticking power of geckos -- small lizards that can run up walls and across ceilings.
The tape is a polymer covered with carbon nanotubes that imitate the thousands of microscopic hairs on a gecko's footpad.
The researchers said their prototype flexible tape can stick and unstick repeatedly and be used on a wide variety of surfaces, including Teflon.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.