The adhesion model considering capillarity for gecko attachment system

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 319-327

  Kim, Tae Wan ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Capillarity; Gecko; Hierarchical structure

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CAPILLARITY; CONTACT ANGLE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

GECKO; ROUGH SURFACES;

ADHESION;

ADAPTATION; ADHESION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; DATA ANALYSIS; FORCE; GECKO; GECKO ATTACHMENT SYSTEM; HIERARCHICAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMIDITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIZARD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE LEVEL SPRING MODEL; VAN DER WAALS FORCE;

GEKKONIDAE;

EID: 38349145383     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1078     Document Type: Article

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