Spider's super-glue: thread anchors are composite adhesives with synergistic hierarchical organization

Jonas O. Wolff, Ingo Grawe, Marina Wirth, André Karstedt, Stanislav N. Gorb
2015 Soft Matter  
Spider pyriform glue exhibits a high adhesive strength and flaw tolerance due to fibrillar compound structure on both micro- and nanoscale.
doi:10.1039/c4sm02130d pmid:25672841 fatcat:xcdqlymaurfkbl236s5tlclhne