Human climbing with efficiently scaled gecko-inspired dry adhesives

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 102, 2015, Pages

  Hawkes, Elliot W ^a   Eason, Eric V ^b   Christensen, David L ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Bioinspiration; Climbing; Gecko; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; REUSABILITY; SHEAR STRESS;

BIO-INSPIRATION; CLIMBING; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; GECKO; MAXIMUM SHEAR STRESS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCALING; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

ADHESION;

ADHESIVE AGENT; GECKO INSPIRED DRY ADHESIVE; GLASS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BAYSILON; DIMETICONE;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; GECKO; HUMAN; MECHANICS; REPTILE; RIGIDITY; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; LIZARD; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

GEKKONIDAE;

ADHESIVENESS; ADHESIVES; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; LIZARDS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOVEMENT; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84915745629     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0675     Document Type: Article

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