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Intelligent glue

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  • Haeshin Lee

    (Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology (WCU), and the Molecular-level Interface Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea. haeshin@kaist.ac.kr)

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Spiders' webs are coated with microscopic droplets of glue, but the properties of this adhesive were unclear. It has now been found that the glue's stretchiness underpins its role in catching flies.

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  • Haeshin Lee, 2010. "Intelligent glue," Nature, Nature, vol. 465(7296), pages 298-299, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:465:y:2010:i:7296:d:10.1038_465298a
    DOI: 10.1038/465298a
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