Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 99, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 12252-12256

  Autumn, Kellar ^a   Sitti, Metin ^b   Liang, Yiching A ^d   Peattie, Anne M ^a,c   Hansen, Wendy R ^a   Sponberg, Simon ^a   Kenny, Thomas W ^d   Fearing, Ronald ^b   Israelachvili, Jacob N ^e   Full, Robert J ^c  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DENSITY; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; EXTREMITIES; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANOLIS; GEKKO; GEKKO GECKO; GEKKONIDAE; HEXAPODA; SCINCIDAE;

EID: 0037126001     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.192252799     Document Type: Article

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