Irschick and Collegues Improve Geckskin

Geckskin, a revolutionary super-adhesive developed by a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has recently undergone further improvement. This adhesive, which could originally hold up to 700 pounds on a smooth surface, has been redesigned to be able to adhere to drywall, wood, glass, and metal. The redesigned mainly focused on mimicking the "draping adhesion" found in the Gecko's skin-tendon-bone system, allowing for further versatility.

The UMass news release about this work, written by Janet Lathrop, can be accessed here.