For anyone wondering, this is called Gecko Skin. It is synthethic rubber to match a geckos abillity to cling to things. ppl made robots that climb vertical walls with this stuff
It’s not micro thorns. I think it’s something like Vandewalle’s force. The “gecko skin” has microscopic soft “fingers” (so like thorns but soft and roundish) that splay out when they contact surfaces. These microscopic “fingers” allow the two materials to get so close to one another on a molecular level that there is an attractive force between the molecules. Something like that - his video does a better job of explaining it or course.
For anyone confused, it's van der waals forces that allow the material to grab the object, but not stick to it. It was made to be like gecko skin. One of its uses is in robotics, such as if you wanted a robot to climb a wall and only 'stick' to the wall when it needs to (eliminating a lot of effort and energy). All of this is explained in greater detail in his full video if you want to know more.
I’ve heard about this being in development a long time ago that’s really amazing they made it if I’m not mistaken it works like microscopic Velcro hooks right ?
@@sewerynwojtas8220 Almost, it works by having microscopic wedges that, when pushed on an object in a certain direction, give a completely flat surface in which the van der waals forces can occur. If you move the material opposite of the grain, the van der waals forces cease and it easily slips off.
Veritasium: *does witchcraft* Also Veritasium: *refuses to elaborate* Edit: for everyone who can't tell, this is a joke, I realize there is an explanation, I'm not blind
It works after the same principle. If I remember correctly another power of spider man is to increase the van der walls forces between two objects and make them stick to each other. It is a bit difficult to explain this in a movie that's why sam raimies spider man grows those thorns on his hands and feet
@@lonewolfe2502 You know the law of entropy, You keep tomatoes and oranges side by side, they tend to hug each other and live in harmony, They always do this
Plot twist: This comment doesn't even make sense even we assume the tomato is sticky, how did it get 200 likes. Preparing for "it's a joke!! 🤓" commenter
It's not sticky, but has a very high coefficient of friction. When draped over the tomato, the contact area increases and with it, the resistance to motion.
Similiar concept as 🦎 sticks to wall ,the more surface contact both bodies has ,greater will be chance of sticking,and by contact i mean microscopic level contact
For people who are curious, This is a tape inspired by the paws of a gecko. Their ability to stick to the wall using microscopic structures on their feet cannot be fully replicated but can be imitated. Hence this tape. Its not technically a tape. It contains many microscopic bendable spikes which allows maximum surface to be in contact with the tomato which cannot be achieved by ordinary human hands or surface since they do contain an uneven surface. Though it it rendered useless after a few uses. I'm not particularly sure about the suction, but it did create some sort of force between the tomato and the tape. You guys can watch the video on a channel called veritasium. The video is labelled as "The stickiest non sticky material"
Hmm.. I always thought the spikes created friction, not suction. Which would be a force caused by a difference in air pressure and a completely different force...
I'm not sure the "tape" itself is rendered useless after a few uses. How else did the guy climb a building with it? Pretty sure it was the mold used to create the tape that can only be used a few times before a brand new mold is needed.
@@gammakeraulophon Because a gecko's friction pad is one directional, it needs to be in order for them to walk, when the tomato gets flipped the pad is not facing the same direction.. if it was suction, it would also not release... now there are adhesive forces that allow the gecko to walk on ceilings but this is also a different force than suction..
Contact cement is another sticky material that is really odd. You paint it onto the two things you want to attach and let it dry and it gets totally dry and isn't tacky or sticky at all, but when you put the two dried surfaces together they instantly start to bond extremely strongly..
Yes, those bonds are of an entirely different molecular nature than the “hold up the tomato” example. I studied the chemistry of adhesives in a brief kind of way in my job but holy moly that was 25 years ago and I can’t remember too many details, but now I’m interested all over again.
I'm just imagining all the different engineering applications this could be used in. Like you could use this in a food packing warehouse to pick up a whole load of tomatos or whatever without bruising it and then just have a pallet flip 180* into packing boxes. It'd be genius.
I'm pretty sure this is the gecko foot pattern material like the way that they don't have sticky feet but they can crawl up glass it's all friction it's like micro scotopic like fins and textures that grabs only from a single direction
Almost as if this is a short clip... a CZcams Short... of a longer youtube video... Which you'd know if you clicked one button on screen instead of mashing your keyboard lol
I think it uses something like tiny bumps on it It has basically no surface area for sticky things to grab But it allows for insane amounts of friction like sandpaper
TLDR - It’s works like Gecko skin. They statically attract to a surface if it is dragged onto it. When you gently lift the opposing direction, it comes off
i think it isnt sticky, its just high friction. thats also why when lifting the tomato, the strip of material is pulled from the middle, so both sides are actually "gripping" the tomato instead of "sticking" to it.
The explanation: They studied gecko feet and found that they have microscopic patterns on their feet so small that they can actually cling to atoms on the surface of virtually anything.
@@Stickers2Go wait there's a full version? Is it some new video of his? And here I was searching for answers in comments 🤦♂️ Wait let me check his channel again
Obviously there are small hooks that only hook in when you try to move ALONG the surface, not just touch the surface. Very easy to understand without putting any thought into it at all.
Maybe there are micro hooks facing upwards that's why the tomato does not fall since the weight helps to be hooked on it. When turned upside down, it releases the tomato since no force/gravity was given.
Pretty close, I haven't watched the full video but: my guess is that it uses rigid 'flaps' and the edge of those flaps dig in in one direction but lay flat in the other direction.
For people wondering- it uses van der waal’s force similar to lizard’s foot or any wall climbing reptile’s foot. It just have very thin blades like this- |||||when applied force, the blades bend and become like this-\\\\\ eventually smoothing out the surface increasing surface area increasing the vander waal’s force resulting in attraction.
My immediate thought on this is Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man climbing a wall in an alley for the first time. The camera zooms in on his fingers. That's what this is, isn't it? It's Spider-Man's foreskin.
For those who don't know, the material simulates jecko skin, it has millions of tiny edges that when pressed against something use a physical property that allows it to stick very very strongly
This is called Darium, it's very rare and that piece he's holding costs around $4500, the metal has this strange property because I made up the name and can't lie anymore, I'm sorry for wasting your time.
Consider it like the fine hairs on a spiders foot, or the tiny scales on a geckos foot. Basically one direction it’s slick but owner tension each little hair cams into the item and locks it in.
@@thegoalie2090 It’s called “PaperTape”, it’s a new line of tape by the company Scotch The technology is based on a gradient of electrons that moves to a certain location of the tape depending on the charge of the material it’s it contact with.
It's like a gecko foot, using those spicy van der waals forces! Microscopic magnetism~~~ If you watch a gecko walk, you'll notice they lift their toes from the tip before lifting their foot, unlike most other things with wide foot that lift from the heel first. They're also cute and have dumb faces!!
tldr for the full video: when pressure is applied from a certain direction, the surface area is almost completely flat and Van Der Waal's force between neutral atoms is applied.
My guess would be that it is t sticky, but instead has a rough surface allowing it to create friction and grab the tomato rather rather than sticking to it
For an explanation: czcams.com/video/vS0TuIPoeBs/video.html
You should pin this
woah nice, the vid started where this one ended.
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't explain the science behind it... ngl
Pin it
YAAAY for forever chemicals!!
Vsauce doesn't leave people hanging in his shorts.
Look in the description
@@TomtheMagician21 description?
No, he wears trousers when he does that
Best comment i ever read
"this material isn't sticky at all.... Or is it?" -vsauce probably
Man created a tomato magnet
im cracking up 😂 your comment is hilarious !! made my evening
😅😂🤣 You win the comment section today 🏆
😂😂 props!
Fits perfectly into my plan to build a machine to steal and destroy all the world's tomatoes.
Good to know we found a weapon to defend us from the psycho murder zombie tomatoes, now I dare to sleep after 2364 sleepless nights.
For anyone wondering, this is called Gecko Skin.
It is synthethic rubber to match a geckos abillity to cling to things. ppl made robots that climb vertical walls with this stuff
If it’s horizontal isn’t it a floor or ceiling?
@@advantage6553 nope and yes.
when you for example see the horisont out at sea it is not vertical (vertical is up/down).
How does it work?
@@echo2302it has microscopic thorns, which are directed one way
It’s not micro thorns. I think it’s something like Vandewalle’s force. The “gecko skin” has microscopic soft “fingers” (so like thorns but soft and roundish) that splay out when they contact surfaces. These microscopic “fingers” allow the two materials to get so close to one another on a molecular level that there is an attractive force between the molecules. Something like that - his video does a better job of explaining it or course.
my thoughts are that the object isn’t sticky, but can cause a lot of friction to occur when wrapped around another object making it hold
This was my conclusion too. Makes sense and is actually really cool
Thats what I thought
Yep that's what I thought too
Yeah like skin on glass windows
The friction isn't from being wrapped around a object its the downward force caused by gravity, that's the cause of friction
For anyone confused, it's van der waals forces that allow the material to grab the object, but not stick to it. It was made to be like gecko skin. One of its uses is in robotics, such as if you wanted a robot to climb a wall and only 'stick' to the wall when it needs to (eliminating a lot of effort and energy). All of this is explained in greater detail in his full video if you want to know more.
Thank youuuu
Truly appreciated 🙏 💓
Thank you.👍
I’ve heard about this being in development a long time ago that’s really amazing they made it if I’m not mistaken it works like microscopic Velcro hooks right ?
@@sewerynwojtas8220 Almost, it works by having microscopic wedges that, when pushed on an object in a certain direction, give a completely flat surface in which the van der waals forces can occur. If you move the material opposite of the grain, the van der waals forces cease and it easily slips off.
>shows the stickiest non sticky material
>tape doesnt stick but the tomato did
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
It'll be friction
🗿
His latest video explains what it is
@@cozy2 Isn’t it surface area?
>mfw
Veritasium: *does witchcraft*
Also Veritasium: *refuses to elaborate*
Edit: for everyone who can't tell, this is a joke, I realize there is an explanation, I'm not blind
So true
Watch the video he linked 🙄
@@mattdogg65 you watch it then make a short with the tomato bit and also the explanation. then you're allowed to speak again.
God loves you
@@skither4305 not as much as your mom
That’s what Spider-Man’s finger tips must feel like.
It works after the same principle. If I remember correctly another power of spider man is to increase the van der walls forces between two objects and make them stick to each other. It is a bit difficult to explain this in a movie that's why sam raimies spider man grows those thorns on his hands and feet
Finally I can pull my tomatoes from heap of oranges
What's tomato doing in heap of oranges? There's something weird about that Tomato.
@@lonewolfe2502 You know the law of entropy, You keep tomatoes and oranges side by side, they tend to hug each other and live in harmony, They always do this
@@lonewolfe2502 He's in Ohio mate.
@@ritanshusingh8064 this why my grandma told me to keep my tomatoes next to my apples, and my oranges next to my bananas
Are you the guy in the maths problems
I love the part where he explains wtf is
But he does in the full video
he made a full video so i’m guessing he didn’t have time in a short
I think it's called gecko tape (because it's based on the gecko's grip)
@@kelbycahalan149 he could have made it longer
@@bobbert4679 that could however steal views from his main content which is long form videos
For those wondering : Its actually especially designed akin to the structure in gecko's feet
"Tape won't stick to it"
*Barely even tries*
Plot twist: the tomato is sticky
The tape’s sticky too.
He held it upside down and fell, so plot twist: gravity is sticky
@@Cameronbass5150 but only when the tomato is at the bottom
Plot twist: This comment doesn't even make sense even we assume the tomato is sticky, how did it get 200 likes.
Preparing for "it's a joke!! 🤓" commenter
That joke makes no sense
Plot twist it only sticks to tomatoes
and only from above
@@Fytrzaczek21 but if you put it down....
@@Luffy_wastaken it falls...
…and iguanas.
Well done M. Night
It's not sticky, but has a very high coefficient of friction. When draped over the tomato, the contact area increases and with it, the resistance to motion.
Its not only friction, it is actually magnetism. Watch the full video, it is really interesting!
@@marcusgrotenfelt4075 electromagnetism*
@@hardikb15you must be relatively special. I wasn't particularly interested, but now it's not matter
Thanks for the short explanation! I' wonder If they've found a usage for this strange material
Similiar concept as 🦎 sticks to wall ,the more surface contact both bodies has ,greater will be chance of sticking,and by contact i mean microscopic level contact
Cool! that really makes sense. Also, the insect must be light weight in order to stick to a wall
That makes my plans for decorating my place with tomatoes hanging from the ceiling so much easier thanks
Omg this had me in tears funniest comment ever 🤣 😂
Lol.
😅
1% funny
@@diggerpete9334 and that comment is 100% unnecessary, have a lovely day
For people who are curious, This is a tape inspired by the paws of a gecko. Their ability to stick to the wall using microscopic structures on their feet cannot be fully replicated but can be imitated. Hence this tape. Its not technically a tape. It contains many microscopic bendable spikes which allows maximum surface to be in contact with the tomato which cannot be achieved by ordinary human hands or surface since they do contain an uneven surface. Though it it rendered useless after a few uses.
I'm not particularly sure about the suction, but it did create some sort of force between the tomato and the tape. You guys can watch the video on a channel called veritasium. The video is labelled as "The stickiest non sticky material"
Hmm.. I always thought the spikes created friction, not suction. Which would be a force caused by a difference in air pressure and a completely different force...
its not suction, its using the positive and negative charges of atoms
I'm not sure the "tape" itself is rendered useless after a few uses. How else did the guy climb a building with it? Pretty sure it was the mold used to create the tape that can only be used a few times before a brand new mold is needed.
@@gammakeraulophon Because a gecko's friction pad is one directional, it needs to be in order for them to walk, when the tomato gets flipped the pad is not facing the same direction.. if it was suction, it would also not release... now there are adhesive forces that allow the gecko to walk on ceilings but this is also a different force than suction..
@@sailexw6414
Ok thanks sailex..
The only way I see this being possible is if it uses friction to stop the tomato from falling
Bro never head of friction 💀💀💀💀
Contact cement is another sticky material that is really odd. You paint it onto the two things you want to attach and let it dry and it gets totally dry and isn't tacky or sticky at all, but when you put the two dried surfaces together they instantly start to bond extremely strongly..
good call
Yes, those bonds are of an entirely different molecular nature than the “hold up the tomato” example. I studied the chemistry of adhesives in a brief kind of way in my job but holy moly that was 25 years ago and I can’t remember too many details, but now I’m interested all over again.
@@spaceknave sick.. get your old ass off youtube & ina graveyard my boy 🤭🤫🤠
@@spaceknave start with „Kövulationskleber“
They find the friend 😊
Yes, that was a nice material
Bummer we don't know what it really is, but yeah it's nice
now lets see paul allens material
@@jokuvaanoikee242 💀
Friction is beautiful. Can be manipulated in so many ways.
Directional effect. It grips horizontally but not vertically. Such properties are obtainable these days easily
Next you're going to tell me it only sticks to tomatoes on Saturdays when the moon is waxing and mercury is in retrograde.
I'm just imagining all the different engineering applications this could be used in. Like you could use this in a food packing warehouse to pick up a whole load of tomatos or whatever without bruising it and then just have a pallet flip 180* into packing boxes. It'd be genius.
Finger tips of spidey suit! Yay!
I'm pretty sure this is the gecko foot pattern material like the way that they don't have sticky feet but they can crawl up glass it's all friction it's like micro scotopic like fins and textures that grabs only from a single direction
@@bobmcfierson2163 yeah. He has a full video about it on his channel
@@bobmcfierson2163 watched the full vid, huh?
You could also do that with a belt lesning onto a claw crane type thing.
Friction at its finest.
Like money, it won’t stick to my wallet.
Lmfao did veritasium really intentionally leave out the materials name to get more clicks and interactions w the short for the yt algorithm????
There is literally 0 obligation to elaborate from his side...
Look in the description
Gotta get that clout somehow
Yes. And?
Almost as if this is a short clip... a CZcams Short... of a longer youtube video... Which you'd know if you clicked one button on screen instead of mashing your keyboard lol
The answers are always in the comment section. 😂 And I'm really grateful to those people who make an effort to enlighten us. 🙏🏻
do you get the answer... cuz I didn't find any
My blind guess is that the material would have extremely high friction, so something moving across the surface would grip immediately.
This is one of my son's favorite videos! (the long version). Thank you!
It must be something like a cats tongue on a micro level
it is if you watch the full video
@@kelbycahalan149 It's not like a cat's tongue at all, I think you need to rewatch it
@@MrArcticPOWER have you seen a cats tonge
I like how he explains the toughest concepts easily.
Stickiness: 0
Coefficient of static friction: 999999
Examiner:- why this material is non sticky
This guy :- because it doesn't stic
Its "gecko" tape. Designed after the texture of a gecko foot.
It's basically how geckos can walk on glass. It quite literally shares an electron cloud between the two materials bonding them
The best part of this video is when he tells us what it's called. Just mind blowing 🤯🤯
Spider-Man has entered the chat…
Sticks more than my jokes
The fact that no one liked 💀💀
@@koxtheknight7087 I did 😔
Well the jokes now on my then
I think it uses something like tiny bumps on it
It has basically no surface area for sticky things to grab
But it allows for insane amounts of friction like sandpaper
TLDR - It’s works like Gecko skin. They statically attract to a surface if it is dragged onto it. When you gently lift the opposing direction, it comes off
i think it isnt sticky, its just high friction. thats also why when lifting the tomato, the strip of material is pulled from the middle, so both sides are actually "gripping" the tomato instead of "sticking" to it.
idk bout that mate
Technically it’s on a molecular level and it’s a big amount of electric forces
Uses the deadliest force known to a middle schooler… static cling!
The explanation: They studied gecko feet and found that they have microscopic patterns on their feet so small that they can actually cling to atoms on the surface of virtually anything.
You can see his brain doubts the proposition he put forward and expects it to fall as he puts his hand under to catch it.
It probably has everything to do with its surface on a micro level. It more than likely has a specific surface structure that allows this to happen.
u are right dawg
congrats you've watched the full version but claim to guess like you never knew.
@@Stickers2Go wait there's a full version?
Is it some new video of his?
And here I was searching for answers in comments 🤦♂️
Wait let me check his channel again
@@Stickers2Go Dawg, cope. What else would it be??? Magic? It's not hard to guess lmao.
@@Stickers2Go yea.. I didn’t watch the full version. Why are you angry that people have intelligence??
Van der Waal forces!
*edit* : Yes I did watch the complete video.
And he said if enough people comment that he should climb a building he would!!
It’s the same principle that allows geckos to move around the way they do without sticky pads on their feet.
Obviously there are small hooks that only hook in when you try to move ALONG the surface, not just touch the surface. Very easy to understand without putting any thought into it at all.
I'm assuming something with the "texture" of this material allows it to grip when forces are applied at an angle.
Maybe there are micro hooks facing upwards that's why the tomato does not fall since the weight helps to be hooked on it. When turned upside down, it releases the tomato since no force/gravity was given.
Exactly! Perfect for spidey Suit's fingertips!
Pretty close, I haven't watched the full video but: my guess is that it uses rigid 'flaps' and the edge of those flaps dig in in one direction but lay flat in the other direction.
For people wondering- it uses van der waal’s force similar to lizard’s foot or any wall climbing reptile’s foot. It just have very thin blades like this- |||||when applied force, the blades bend and become like this-\\\\\ eventually smoothing out the surface increasing surface area increasing the vander waal’s force resulting in attraction.
My immediate thought on this is Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man climbing a wall in an alley for the first time. The camera zooms in on his fingers. That's what this is, isn't it? It's Spider-Man's foreskin.
For those who don't know, the material simulates jecko skin, it has millions of tiny edges that when pressed against something use a physical property that allows it to stick very very strongly
I just needed this in my life
somebody: "is that sticky?"
this guy: "yesn't"
that material : never let them know your next move
We use it a lot its called stickisium and it only sticks to tomatoes when they are above them.
This is called Darium, it's very rare and that piece he's holding costs around $4500, the metal has this strange property because I made up the name and can't lie anymore, I'm sorry for wasting your time.
Gravity be like: How dare you hold things against me? 😡💀
This is how I imagine Spider-Man's wall climbing ability works
Consider it like the fine hairs on a spiders foot, or the tiny scales on a geckos foot. Basically one direction it’s slick but owner tension each little hair cams into the item and locks it in.
under tension right? not owner tension.. right?
My favorite part of the video is where he explains the underlaying principles of how this works.
It’s due to upright versus it laying flat. The chemicals or particles react to shifting.
Shear Friction is there only
You should try sticking things horizontal 😅 or your finger rubbing horizontal to the material 😅
To those who don't know, watch the latest video on the channel, guys !
People asking what it is as if he didn't make a whole video about it 💀
Ok so what is this material called?
@@thegoalie2090 It’s called “PaperTape”, it’s a new line of tape by the company Scotch
The technology is based on a gradient of electrons that moves to a certain location of the tape depending on the charge of the material it’s it contact with.
Not everyone watches his videos. Thanks mild satire
@@bsw051 Lol i actually do but not the most recent!
@@bsw051 you can't be this early for a video unless you've been notified. hence, they're veritasium regulars
It isn't adhesive, but it's frictional coefficient is high enough to hold the tomato's weight
It's like a gecko foot, using those spicy van der waals forces! Microscopic magnetism~~~
If you watch a gecko walk, you'll notice they lift their toes from the tip before lifting their foot, unlike most other things with wide foot that lift from the heel first.
They're also cute and have dumb faces!!
The sweetest non-sweet potato :v
BUT WHY!!! I NEED AN EXPLANATION 😭
Probably friction. They way he pulled on the string would cause the material to slide past the tomate, and since it's very grippy it doesn't.
Full video... Uploaded on the channel !!
I think it's just very grippy sideways
tldr for the full video: when pressure is applied from a certain direction, the surface area is almost completely flat and Van Der Waal's force between neutral atoms is applied.
@@SlimShady-gs8pl Ty
Thanks for your warm cutting edge explanation
The coolest part is when you tell us what the material is and tell us how it happens.
Bro now you’re just using magic and covering it up by calling it “science”
van der wals moment
He should have gave the explanation 😭😭
You can’t convince me that Spider-Man wasn’t involved in the creation of this
Unobtainium?
obamium😊
Donaldinium
Uno?
This makes me appreciate Vsause so much more...
It’s like a silicon molding of a woodworker’s feather board cut into wax by a razor blade. Just on a different scale.
I believe the surface of that material is like the pads of a gecko.
what is this sorcery
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@@thysupremematrix4327 yeah
6 lik
uhh hi
Bruh 8 likes☠️
I know he doesn't like doing shorts, but I'm glad he's doing them anyway.
Lizard: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!
At a guess, some kind of microscopic wedge pattern going against the grain. Kind of like a tire rubber when you use it to grip a glass bottle.
Imagine my surprise when I see a short of Ben Affleck's doppleganger reacting to a bizarre anti-adhesive adhesive on my recommended page
This guy sounds like if heath ledger joker were to explain science to me
The two objects only stay together because of friction, you know, like a marriage.
Been looking for a tomato magnet 🧲 my whole life!
Its the same principle geckos use to climb
This material causes me anxiety, it feels like the tiny spikes would last on your hand...
My guess would be that it is t sticky, but instead has a rough surface allowing it to create friction and grab the tomato rather rather than sticking to it
proof tomatoes are made of metal
That is the skin of tobey Maguire (Spiderman) that ain't no element.
it's like a classic riddle, " guess what I am"
I feel like it could be the material has micro pieces, sticking out that grip onto the tomato using gravity
My physics teacher is going mad after I show her this
ngl, scientists explaining atoms make about as much sense as a preacher explaining creation