Gecko Tapes

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> It is only recently that scientists have unlocked the secret behind the lizards’ perplexing mobility and begun engineering synthetic materials mimicking their abilities.

I wish there was a law saying pages that use relative dates must be timestamped. Anyway, Wayback Machine says it's been around since at least 2014.

The mechanism of Gecko adhesion has been known for more than 20 years

https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/42/6/1081/698253

https://www.nature.com/articles/35015073

https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/13-kellar-autumn

> Considering a gecko foot has an area around only 100 mm2

Is this measurement for some kind of large-sized gecko? Geckos in Hawai'i have significantly smaller feet, maybe 20-40% this proposed area or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_dust_day_gecko

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