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Nanotech Discovery Could Lead to Spiderman Suit

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Wired Science

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/nanotech-discov.html

Aug 29, 2007

A team of Italian scientists says their latest nanotech discovery is the secret to the wall-scaling Spiderman suit. The basic physics look promising, but some issues need to be resolved, said Ronald S. Fearing, an electrical engineering professor at UC Berkeley and an expert in biologically inspired synthetic gecko adhesives.