Bacterium makes nature’s strongest glue
Geckos, mussels and barnacles step aside – physicists have found the stickiest customer in all of biology. The title-holder is an unassuming bacterium that lives anywhere wet. By copying its feat of strength, material scientists might create new surgical glues.So secure is the adhesive made by Caulobacter crescentus that the bacterium can cling to a surface even when subjected to a force equivalent to four cars balanced on a coin…
