Adhesion characteristics of polyurethane for bionic hairy foot

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures

Volumn 17, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 737-741

  Dai, Zhendong ^a   Yu, Min ^a   Gorb, Stanislav ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Bionic; Gecko; Polyurethane; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONTACT ANGLE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BIONIC HAIRY FOOT; CONTACT GEOMETRY;

POLYURETHANES;

EID: 33747186371     PISSN: 1045389X     EISSN: 15308138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X06055829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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