3D Printing of Elastomeric Bioinspired Complex Adhesive Microstructures

© 2021 The Authors. Advanced Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 33(2021), 40 vom: 24. Okt., Seite e2103826
1. Verfasser: Dayan, Cem Balda (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Chun, Sungwoo, Krishna-Subbaiah, Nagaraj, Drotlef, Dirk-Michael, Akolpoglu, Mukrime Birgul, Sitti, Metin
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article bioinspired microstructures gecko-inspired adhesives liquid super-repellency reversible adhesion two-photon polymerization Acrylates Adhesives Elastomers Urethane 3IN71E75Z5
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:© 2021 The Authors. Advanced Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Bioinspired elastomeric structural adhesives can provide reversible and controllable adhesion on dry/wet and synthetic/biological surfaces for a broad range of commercial applications. Shape complexity and performance of the existing structural adhesives are limited by the used specific fabrication technique, such as molding. To overcome these limitations by proposing complex 3D microstructured adhesive designs, a 3D elastomeric microstructure fabrication approach is implemented using two-photon-polymerization-based 3D printing. A custom aliphatic urethane-acrylate-based elastomer is used as the 3D printing material. Two designs are demonstrated with two combined biological inspirations to show the advanced capabilities enabled by the proposed fabrication approach and custom elastomer. The first design focuses on springtail- and gecko-inspired hybrid microfiber adhesive, which has the multifunctionalities of side-surface liquid super-repellency, top-surface liquid super-repellency, and strong reversible adhesion features in a single fiber array. The second design primarily centers on octopus- and gecko-inspired hybrid adhesive, which exhibits the benefits of both octopus- and gecko-inspired microstructured adhesives for strong reversible adhesion on both wet and dry surfaces, such as skin. This fabrication approach could be used to produce many other 3D complex elastomeric structural adhesives for future real-world applications
Beschreibung:Date Completed 26.01.2022
Date Revised 13.10.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202103826