New Delhi, June 04: Inspired by lizard`s toes, scientists have developed a new super-sticky tape that is so strong it can stick a person to the ceiling by just one hand. With a few tweaks, the prototype adhesive could have limitless applications - tyres with more grip, surgical tape and sticky gloves for rock climbers, says a report in the journal "Nature Materials".

Lizards are able to hang from the ceiling by a single toe because their digits are covered in millions of tiny hairs that bond with any surface.
A team led by Andre Geim of the University of Manchester has now produced a postage-stamp-sized piece of synthetic tape covered in millions of protruding plastic polymer `hairs` each of which is just two thousandths of a millimetre high. This allows the "hairs" to get extremely close to the molecules that make up a surface.

Bureau Report