These gloves can be incredible to climb walls

Man still has much to learn from our brothers menshih

Many lizards such as geckos have a remarkable ability to easily climb vertical surfaces. This process has fascinated scientists for many years, but in how it happens, they are sorted out recently.

A more clear understanding of the operating principle of pillows on the feet of gecko specialists gave hope that an exact copy of the pillows and can keep a person's weight.

But to be solved another problem of these "human-gecko gloves" - the problem of uniform distribution of weight. Weight hanging man should be distributed so that no one pillow no critical voltage that can cause a chain reaction and destroy the whole system. A group of researchers led by Stanford engineer Ethan Hawkes said that they were able to solve this problem. They have developed a dry binder called PDMS, which has nanofibers like gecko hairs. They are aligned, when the glove moves along the surface down, with grip increases at the expense of the emerging electromagnetic attraction. At the same time the glove is easy to "unstuck" from the surface in the snatch, perpendicular to its plane.



via factroom.ru