Recent PhD graduate Hamed Shahsavan has received an Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies award [View original article]
The image was taken using a field emission scanning electron microscope (SEM). It shows three colonies of Staphylococcus [View original article]
The ability of geckos to climb on surfaces is mainly pegged on their adhesive toe pads [View original article]
University of Waterloo engineers used the gecko for inspiration when inventing a device with potential applications in [View original article]
The brainchild of Hamed Shahsavan, a PhD student supervised by Zhao, in collaboration with professor Antal Jakli [View original article]
Active control of adhesion by mimicking the smart and switchable properties of gecko toe pads can make the gripping [View original article]
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