Frictional adhesion of patterned surfaces and implications for gecko and biomimetic systems

Geckos and smaller animals such as flies, beetles, and spiders have extraordinary climbing abilities: They can firmly attach and rapidly detach from almost any kind of surface. In the case of geckos, this ability is attributed to the surface topography of their attachment pads, which are covered wit...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 25(2009), 13 vom: 07. Juli, Seite 7486-95
1. Verfasser: Zeng, Hongbo (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pesika, Noshir, Tian, Yu, Zhao, Boxin, Chen, Yunfei, Tirrell, Matthew, Turner, Kimberly L, Israelachvili, Jacob N
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.