To optimal elasticity of adhesives mimicking gecko foot-hairs

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 358, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 309-312

  Filippov, A E ^a   Popov, V ^b  

^a DONETSK PHYSICOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Ukraine)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fractal surface; Gecko adhesion; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; ELASTICITY; FRACTALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; COHESION FORCE; ELASTIC FIBER; FORCE BALANCE EQUATION; FRACTAL SURFACES; GECKO ADHESION; HIGH FLEXIBILITY; WIDE SPECTRUM;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 33747879023     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2006.05.034     Document Type: Article

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