Microfabricated adhesive mimicking gecko foot-hair

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 461-463

  Geim, A K ^a   Dubonos, S V ^a,b   Grigorieva, I V ^a   Novoselov, K S ^a   Zhukov, A A ^a   Shapoval, S Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND HIGH PURITY MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BONDING; DURABILITY; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FABRICATION; HYDROPHILICITY; POLYIMIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CAPILLARY FORCES; ELECTRICAL INSTABILITY; GECKO FOOT HAIR; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION;

ADHESIVES;

ADHESIVE AGENT; POLYIMIDE RESIN; RESIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ADHESIVES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RESINS, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0041592757     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat917     Document Type: Letter

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