Rubber sheets that reversibly bind and release substrates have been made by copying a subtlety in the shape of octopus suckers. The findings reveal how macro-scale biological structures can influence function. See Letter p.396
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Wilker, J. How to suck like an octopus. Nature 546, 358–359 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/546358a
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