Single macroscopic pillars as model system for bioinspired adhesives: Influence of tip dimension, aspect ratio, and tilt angle

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7076-7083

  Micciché, Maurizio ^a   Arzt, Eduard ^a,b   Kroner, Elmar ^a  

^a INM LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEW MATERIALS   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

adhesion; angle; gecko; microstructure; PDMS; pillar

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADHESIVES; EXPERIMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

ADHESION MEASUREMENT; ANGLE; DESIGN PARAMETERS; GECKO; HIGH TILT ANGLE; LINEAR DECREASE; PDMS; PILLAR;

ASPECT RATIO;

ADHESIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPTILE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESIVES; ANIMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPTILES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84901650469     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am405873j     Document Type: Article

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