How about wet adhesion? Or capillary adhesion?

Lifesaver pores are 15 nanometers.

But these pores here are special.

We worked with a theme, which is, you've got macrophages that are streaming down a capillary, and they're touching the surface of the capillary wall, and they're picking up information from cells that are on the capillary wall, and they are given this information that there's an inflammation somewhere outside, where they can't see and sense.

One is hierarchical pores, and the other is a macro molecular nanoscale porosity in the material.

Every red blood cell of your body right now has these hourglass shaped pores called aquaporins.

Pores like these conduct electrical current and are responsible for all the communication in the nervous system.

You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture.

As we zoom in on one of these purple neurons, we see that its outer membrane is studded with microscopic pores.

It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots.

And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process.

We find life at the bottom of every long term, long distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock.

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.

But they get the information that causes them to stop, causes them to internalize that they need to make all of the various parts that will cause them to change their shape, and try to get out of this capillary and find out what's going on.

And even when you close the pore which neurons can do, they can open and close these pores to generate electrical activity even when it's closed, because these ions are so small, they can actually sneak through, a few can sneak through at a time.

In the lab, we micro pattern channels in the biomaterials on which we grow the cells, and this allows us to flow the cell culture media, the cells' food, through the scaffolds where we're growing the cells a lot like what you might expect from a capillary bed in the heart.

It has pores, it has sweat glands, it has all these things that work together very dynamically and very efficiently, and so what I propose is that our building skins should be more similar to human skin, and by doing so can be much more dynamic, responsive and differentiated, depending on where it is.