Looking Beyond Fibrillar Features to Scale Gecko-Like Adhesion

Hand‐sized gecko‐inspired adhesives with reversible force capacities as high as 2950 N (29.5 N cm‐2) are designed without the use of fibrillar features through a simple scaling theory. The scaling theory describes both natural and synthetic gecko‐inspired adhesives, over 14 orders of magnitude in ad...

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Published inAdvanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 1078 - 1083
Main Authors Bartlett, Michael D., Croll, Andrew B., King, Daniel R., Paret, Beth M., Irschick, Duncan J., Crosby, Alfred J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 21.02.2012
WILEY‐VCH Verlag
Subjects
Adhesion
Adhesives
Adhesives - chemistry
Animals
bioinspired
Biomimetics - methods
climbing
gecko
Nanostructure
Reptiles
scaling
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Summary:Hand‐sized gecko‐inspired adhesives with reversible force capacities as high as 2950 N (29.5 N cm‐2) are designed without the use of fibrillar features through a simple scaling theory. The scaling theory describes both natural and synthetic gecko‐inspired adhesives, over 14 orders of magnitude in adhesive force capacity, from nanoscopic to macroscopic length scales.
Bibliography:ark:/67375/WNG-423642TM-6
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ISSN:0935-9648
1521-4095
1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201104191