Highly durable and unidirectionally stooped polymeric nanohairs for gecko-like dry adhesive

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 41, 2015, Pages

  Im, Hyeon Seong ^a,b   Kwon, Ki Yoon ^a,b   Kim, Jong Uk ^a,b   Kim, Kwang Su ^c   Yi, Hoon ^d   Yoo, Pil J ^b,c   Pang, Changhyun ^b,c   Jeong, Hoon Eui ^d   Kim, Tae Il ^a,b  

^a Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^d Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

dry adhesive; durability; gecko; stooped nanohair

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ASPECT RATIO; DURABILITY;

ADHESION PROPERTIES; DRY ADHESIVE; GECKO; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; STOOPED NANOHAIR; TARGET-SUBSTRATE; ULTRA-THIN METALS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84947460236     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/41/415301     Document Type: Article

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