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Looking beyond fibrillar features to scale gecko-like adhesion.

Author(s): N Croll, Duncan J Irschick, Gwendalyn D. King, Benjamin Bartlett, M Paret, Erika Crosby

Publication date: 2012-02-21

Journal: Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

Keywords: Adhesives, chemistry, Animals, Biomimetics, methods, Reptiles

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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. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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PubMed ID:: 22278804

DOI:: 10.1002/adma.201104191

ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: Adhesives,chemistry,Animals,Biomimetics,methods,Reptiles

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Keywords: Adhesives, chemistry, Animals, Biomimetics, methods, Reptiles

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