Evidence for capillarity contributions to gecko adhesion from single spatula nanomechanical measurements.

By Gerrit Huber, H. Mantz, R. Spolenak, Klaus Mecke, K. Jacobs, Stanislav N. Gorb, Eduard Arzt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005

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Gecko‐Inspired Dry Adhesive for Robotic Applications (2011, background): “Close contact is essential for the short-range van der Waals forces, which have been shown to be primarily responsible for the gecko’s impressive climbing and clinging abilities (Autumn et al., 2002) along with capillary forces (Huber et al., 2005) in a secondary role.”