
Deddy Sinaga
Leaved at the post just time of spider man story in comic becomes reality. Professor Nicola Pugno, engineer and physicist from Politeknik Turin in Italian, has designed a clothes enabling its(the consumer creeping at vertical wall or walk at ceiling.
Later, said Profesor Pugno, whose also can become Spider-Man, figure superhero in comic.
But, the clothes also multifungsi. " Can be used starts exploration of space until defence importance, even can also is design clothes for skyscraper building glass cleaner officer," says Pugno in its(the presentation in physicist journal Condensed Matter edition Thursday last week.
The clothes consumer can creep at equiamplitude surface cause wall of the clothes is viscid. Its(the inspiration is gecho, reptil capable to patch at inversed or vertical wall without need to clutch anything.
The scientists finds that gecho viscid at wall creeped over by it because its(the legs having remarkable smooth hair many. The hair called as setae. The numbers around 500 thousand sheets in every gecho leg. But, its(the scale is very small, each around 10 microns ( 1 micron = 10-6 meter).
At the end of every setae there are 1001000 smaller hairs again, what named spatula. Its(the scale around 100 nanometers ( 1 nanometer = 10-9 meter).
Setae and this spatula yields sticky energy?power a gecho. The scientists calculates, every piece of spatula has sticky energy?power 10 nanonewton. So imagines its(the strength if(when at every leg there is millions of spatula.
Viscid energy?power Spatula happened as result of existence of energy?power intermolekuler ( tarikmenarik intermolecular) leg with equiamplitude surface stepped on. This energy?power called as also interaction Van der Waals.
Energy?power intermolekuler happened when its(the rise electron between spatulas and equiamplitude surface stepped on. Accumulation of billion trade-offs energy setae makes gecho and labalaba can creep at wall and glass equiamplitude surface.
Its(the leg also able to be stepped easily, even like gluing at equiamplitude surface stepped on by it. This happened intermolekuler energy?power cause is very weakening.
The scientists proves accumulation of intermolekuler energy?power makes gecho ready to account weight hundreds of times his own body weight. For example, gecho which wt. 70 grams simply ready to arrest;detain payload to 133 kilograms.
This nature of inspiration a number of experts, until Pugno, checks the application of his(its at man. They thought, if leg and gecho hair can be imitated, non unlikely of man also can creep at vertical wall like Spider-Man.
Artificial gecho hair ( Velcro) also is created. But Pugno finds, hair made in that do not as sticky its(the original.
Don't know why, increasingly artificial gecho hair area wide, exactly its(the viscid decreases. a gauntlet fulfilled by artificial gecho hair not as sticky dinky gecho leg. " In consequence, required gauntlet and shoe with sticky energy?power larger ones," said Pugno.
Pugno also finds new formula, namely carbon nanotubes ( CNTS) in the place of Velcro. This carbon is in the form of teeny platen, width less than 1 nanometer ( 50 thousand smaller times than man hairs).
Sewer Structures CNTS haves the power of the same with levator skapula. Besides, this carbon one one another with interaction Van der Waals. This interaction makes it becomes one of material is strong, exceeds carbon steel. CNTS also is spelled out members electrical intrinsic semiconductor.
This mouldable carbon like hook and fairish tresss of nano which will function like microscopic fairish Velcro. Interaction of Van der Waals and hair small channel viscid energy?power ( capillarity) at this carbon makes it is stickier than artificial gecho hairs, at least on paper.
Pugno and its(the team is then clothes material design, gauntlet, and general shoe of gecho ala. They also cable design or cord made from 4 million piece of fiber nanotube.
Every sheet jointed at ingot dissociating every fiber as far as 5 micron. Fiber nanotube makes cord naturally would be sticky at substance anything.
the Clothes and cord, said Pugno, also must have other excellence, namely keep impurity will not making its(the viscid energy?power decreases. The clothes must ready to clean their/his self.
The clothes also super-hydrophobic water resistance alias must lamellar of kelor. Prilled of water which do not diffuse is useful at the same time as pengusir impurity particle.
Pugno tells, this temporary, clothes design and cord still on paper. Realizes that thing of course do not easy to tell him. " But, sees that gecho naturally ready to do it, that thing is not impossible," said him(her. Pugno is continuing, " However, step of we closer, ere long we can witness man to climb Empire State Building without anything besides sticky shoe and gauntlet."
Its(the problem, has made ready ordinary man become like Peter Parkers the spider man ? The reason is, there are still humanitarian hindrance of which must be overcome if wish to creep at wall and celestial, namely limitation of strength of muscle. Man muscle easier to experience fatigue.
Sticky leg
Gecho can climb vertical glass wall of hair cause which is in the form of like teeny tree at its(the footgear. This hair gives hold at glass with weak electromagnetic energy.
Gecho doesn't use chemical matter anything that its(the leg viscid.
The leg remain to underwater viscid, in vacuum chamber, even in space.
Sticky to all materials except teflon.
Way Of Gecho Does it
Intermolecular trade-offs force makes its(the leg hair sticking at equiamplitude surface
Scar gecho, hair glides on the surface.
This impulse makes tip of hair to do contact which extreme at equiamplitude surface.
Electron emerges at molecule tip of hair and equiamplitude surface; trade-offs elektrostatis makes viscid them. Its(the energy light, but trade-offs combination trap millions of tip of hair makes gecho can arrest;detain payload to 27 kilograms.
Gecho moves its(the leg with slow, angle of hair also changes, so that the trade-offs force also is broken.
Gecho Manipulator Plastics
Before usage idea of carbon nanotube emerges from Turin, in United States have been created viscid material inspiration from gecho leg. Its(the viscid energy?power is it is said ready to arrest;detain an automobile above roof.
The material so called plastics synthetic gecko. This plastics created scientist in company space and defence BAE Systems. The plastics made from material polyamide, like nylon.
As gecho leg, what arranged in layers hair so called setae, equiamplitude surface of the polymers is arranged in layers millions of hair is in the form of fungoid giving it performance to patch powerfully. Idea makes clothes SpiderMan also has emerged at the time of invention of the material.
" Window cleaner officer can climb your housing side," said Dr Sajad Haq, researcher head in Advanced Technology Center in Filton, Bristol.
Synthetic gecko, which able to be used many times and do not leave over residue, will not be sticky if touched in a flash only. " Material will become viscid when depressed," said Haq. " Interaction molekulern causing it viscid."
Synthetic gecko produced by modification engineering known as photolithography, usual used to make cip - cip silicon. Its(the engineering wearing [light/ray] to etch cupola three dimensions becomes material.
The cheaper way and can be used in bigger scale. Formerly making of material like that uses expensive electron [light/ray] lithography engineering and difficult to be used produces big scale material.
So far team Dr Haq has created some materials differing from immeasurable mushroom scale to try its(the viscid. They have also created fairish sample more than 100 sticky rectangle millimeters at equiamplitude surface anything, including dirty.
But, the team has not can compare it is ably gecho leg. " Material which we create so far ready to arrest;detain an automobile at roof," said Haq. " We have not at floor is imitating gecho viscid
Source : Tempo Newspaper



