Monday, March 31, 2008

Spiderman Suit: From CGI to R & D

"Now it’s not just Spiderman that can scale the Empire State Building"
Institute of Physics (29 August 29, 2007)

"Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. ... Recent research concluded that van der Waals forces – the weak attraction that molecules have for each other when they are brought very close together - are responsible for creepy crawlies’ amazing sticking power."

And, as of August, 2007, another bit of research indicates that nanotubes designed to take advantage of these forces might make "Spiderman suits" practical.

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