Thursday, August 30, 2007

Spiderman Suit from Nanotechnology

Carbon nanotube-based technology could be used to develop nano-molecular hooks and loops that would function like microscopic Velcro.

A physicist at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, has formulated a hierarchy of adhesive forces that will be strong enough to suspend a person's full body weight against a wall or on a ceiling, while also being easy to detach.

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