Traditional anti-slip materials, such as natural rubber, repel water. But on ice, this approach can backfire. The pressure ...

Geckos are able to maintain a grip on wet surfaces not because their toe pads repel water, but because they attract it. A new ...

Slips and falls account for millions of injuries each year. Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces took ...

A gecko-inspired slip-resistant polymer could be incorporated into shoe soles to prevent people slipping on ice and other ...

"We see this being particularly useful for devices that don't need the extreme precision of silicon chips but still require ...

Some plants, animals, and insects have hydrophobic surfaces and will repel water instead of getting wet. When you watch the video above, you can see exactly how a gecko’s skin repels water.

To get straight to the point, leopard geckos are unfortunately not strong swimmers. Their bodies are best equipped for very ...

A solution to injuries from slips and falls may be found underfoot—literally. The footpads of geckos have hydrophilic ...

Teflon has a surface rich with fluorine atoms, which do not have an attraction to the spatulae of a gecko. Geckos also have trouble on wet surfaces because the water disrupts the Van der Waals ...