Adhesion and friction in gecko toe attachment and detachment

By Yu Tian, N. Pesika, Hongbo Zeng, K. Rosenberg, Boxin Zhao, P. McGuiggan, Kellar Autumn, J. Israelachvili. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

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Fracture and adhesion of soft materials: a review (2016, background): “Each one of these spatulae can withstand strong forces in shear, but can be easily released if peeled off (Tian et al 2006).”
Biotribology: Recent progresses and future perspectives (2015, neutral): “Both the adhesion and friction forces can be changed over orders of magnitude, allowing the swift detachment [255,256].”
Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces (2013, methodology): “J Adhes 87: 1045-1058 (2011) [56] Tian Y, Pesika N, Zeng H B, Rosenberg K, Zhao B, McGuiggan P, Autumn K, Israelachvili J.”
Gecko Adhesion as a Model System for Integrative Biology, Interdisciplinary Science, and Bioinspired Engineering (2014, methodology): “The peel zone model of adhesion is an extension of the Kendall peel model that places additional emphasis on the nanometer-scale aspects of adhesion (Pesika et al. 2007, Tian et al. 2006), namely, the influence of the curvature of the peeling film in the region over which intermolecular forces act.”