Soft grippers using micro-fibrillar adhesives for transfer printing.

Song, Sukho; Sitti, Metin · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The adhesive characteristics of fibrillar adhesives on a soft deformable membrane are reported. A soft gripper with an inflatable membrane covered by elastomer mushroom-shaped microfibers have a superior conformation to non-planar 3D part geometries, enabling the transfer printing of various parts serially or in parallel.

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