Talk:Gecko tape

UMass Amherst Geckskin
UMass Amherst recently published a paper showing the achievement of rather remarkable 29.5 N/cm2 of release-able/reusable adhesive force, witih a non-fibrillar (smooth) Gecko-inspired adhesive. This is reportedly the highest adhesive force to date, and they achieved 100 adhere/release cycles with the material. The paper was published in Advanced Materials and the citation is: Looking Beyond Fibrillar Features to Scale Gecko-Like Adhesion Michael D. Bartlett, Andrew B. Croll, Daniel R. King, Beth M. Paret, Duncan J. Irschick,* and Alfred J. Crosby* DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104191 Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 1078–1083. The work was apparently done in the Crosby and Irschick labs at UMass Amherst. Cheers. N2e (talk) 04:36, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Poorly written
At first glance, this article seems to be written by someone for whom English is not their first language. This is not a criticism, as at least the writer has made an effort. However, it's also poorly organised, quickly getting into details without discussing a broader context with more background on the subject. Things like abbreviating "Van der Waals" might be obvious to the writer but it is not to the reader.

I am not an expert in the subject whatsoever but am commenting from an ignorant reader's point of view. This article is neither technical enough to qualify as a scientific paper nor simply written enough to qualify as a general-interest topic, say, as might be written as an article in Wired magazine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonbo0422 (talk • contribs) 18:56, 20 March 2012 (UTC)