| Literature DB >> 22278804 |
Michael D Bartlett1, Andrew B Croll, Daniel R King, Beth M Paret, Duncan J Irschick, Alfred J Crosby.
Abstract
Hand-sized gecko-inspired adhesives with reversible force capacities as high as 2950 N (29.5 N cm(-2) ) are designed without the use of fibrillar features through a simple scaling theory. The scaling theory describes both natural and synthetic gecko-inspired adhesives, over 14 orders of magnitude in adhesive force capacity, from nanoscopic to macroscopic length scales.Mesh:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22278804 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104191
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Mater ISSN: 0935-9648 Impact factor: 30.849