Structural properties of a scaled gecko foot-hair

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Berengueres, Jose ^a   Saito, Shigeki ^a   Tadakuma, Kenjiro ^a,b  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAIR STRUCTURE; NAKED-EYE; ROUGH SURFACES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ADHESION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; FOOT; HAIR; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOT; HAIR; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GEKKONIDAE;

EID: 34250167225     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/2/1/001     Document Type: Article

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