For example, if it can scale bigger and keep the adhesion force, it could make for a great way to clean windows on skyscrapers.

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Torque vectoring enables optimum use of the adhesion potential between the tyres and the road surface in all driving conditions, thereby extending the critical limits of the vehicle's driving dynamics.

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But perhaps you need more exposure to slag, sewage pumps, adhesion promoters, viscous fluid dosing machines and state-of-the-art grease cartridges.

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This stimulates the body to grow little spikes on the artery walls called adhesion molecules that snare floating immune system cells and bring them into the artery wall.

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These include adhesion proteins which hold the cells of a body together, and homeobox proteins, which tell the cells in an embryo how to develop.

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The devices are so thin that close-contact forces called van der Waals interactions dominate the adhesion at the molecular level, so the electronic tattoos adhere to the skin without any glues and stay in place for hours.

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