Snail slime inspires reversible, super-strong glue

interesting facts about snails

Interesting Facts About Snails

Can snail slime upend and revolutionize the adhesives market? Newatlas.com reveals how scientists think that may in fact be the case. The facts about a snail’s slime and how it functions have big implications.

3 pictures Engineers from University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University have demonstrated a strong, reversible adhesive that uses the same mechanism that snails use for attaching and detaching themselves from a surface The promise of reusable sticky things, from Post-it Notes to Blu Tack, has never quite been fulfilled. […]

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