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For years materials scientists have tried to mimic the strong and dry adhesive of gecko feet that would allow robots to climb walls or hold together electrical components. But adhesives that work like gecko feet are difficult to design.
This adhesive is made of arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes topped with an unaligned layer of nanotubes that branch out. When pulled in a direction parallel to the surface, the branched nanotubes become aligned and are very strong. But when pulled in a direction perpendicular to the surface, as with a piece of Scotch tape, the branched nanotubes lose contact one by one, reducing their strength by about an order of magnitude.
The branched nanotubes have a strong, direct bonding potential with a material's surface because each of them has a weak interaction with it, which adds up to a very high adhesive power. The branched structure is similar to that of gecko feet, which have millions of microscale hairs that each have weak interactions with a surface.
The researchers haven't yet used this material for robotics, but it's an important step toward finding ways to improve the performance of these devices. They're also exploring ways to use carbon nanotubes to replace solder for holding together electronic devices. They hope to create composite scant tapes that will have even better adhesion capabilities than the single-layer carbon nanotube adhesives that they've developed so far.
