Spatial model of the gecko foot hair: Functional significance of highly specialized non-uniform geometry

Interface Focus

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Filippov, Alexander E ^a,b   Gorb, Stanislav N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b DONETSK PHYSICOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Bioadhesion; Biological adhesives; Clusterization; Fibrillar adhesives; Gecko seta

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919342762     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0065     Document Type: Article

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