Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6787, 2000, Pages 681-685

  Autumn, Kellar ^a   Liang, Yiching A ^b   Hsieh, S Tonia ^c   Zesch, Wolfgang ^c   Chan, Wal Pang ^c   Kenny, Thomas W ^b   Fearing, Ronald ^c   Full, Robert J ^c  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FOOT; FORCE; HAIR; LIZARD; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FOOT; HAIR; LIZARDS;

ANIMALIA; GEKKO; GEKKONIDAE; SPATULA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0034621887     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015073     Document Type: Article

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