Looking beyond fibrillar features to scale gecko-like adhesion.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1002/adma.201104191.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Adhesives
- Biomimetics
- Reptiles