Effects of contact shape on the scaling of biological attachments

By R. Spolenak, Stanislav N. Gorb, Huajian Gao, Eduard Arzt. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2005

279 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Kellar Autumn
2. P. Niewiarowski
3. J. Puthoff
4. N. Pesika
5. Huajian Gao
6. J. Israelachvili
7. Hongbo Zeng
8. Yu Tian

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Kellar Autumn
2. Valentin L. Popov
3. Markus Hess
4. Huajian Gao
5. E. Willert
6. Yu Tian
7. Ming Zhou
8. Hongbo Zeng

In Mechanics of Materials

1. Kellar Autumn
2. P. Niewiarowski
3. J. Puthoff
4. Valentin L. Popov
5. N. Pesika
6. Markus Hess
7. Huajian Gao
8. E. Willert

Citations in the corpus

• Intravascular Delivery of Particulate Systems: Does Geometry Really Matter? (2008, background): “It has been confirmed theoretically (20, 21 ) that, even at sub-micrometric scales, the shape of two interacting bodies can dramatically affect the interfacial adhesive interactions.”
• Properties, Principles, and Parameters of the Gecko Adhesive System (2006, methodology): “Gorb 2001; Sitti and Fearing 2003; Spolenak et al. 2005; Stork 1983).”
• Mechanics of robust and releasable adhesion in biology: bottom-up designed hierarchical structures of gecko. (2006, background): “Some known examples of anisotropic adhesion systems in which the pull-off force varies strongly with the direction of pulling include an elastic tape on substrate (Kendall, 1975; Spolenak et al., 2005; Huber et al., 2005) and a single seta of gecko sticking on a wall (Autumn et al., 2000; Gao et a”
• Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces (2013, background): “[81] proposed that a flat punch is the perfect shape for a bio-inspired surface, but in practical applications, the properties of the fiber array with a flat punch end may be more easily affected adversely by surface roughness and surface (particulate) contaminants.”
• Handbook of Contact Mechanics (2019, background): “The contact problem was first investigated by Borodich and Galanov (2004), Spolenak et al. (2005), and Yao and Gao (2006).”
• Gecko Adhesion as a Model System for Integrative Biology, Interdisciplinary Science, and Bioinspired Engineering (2014, background): “Spatulae may also be modeled as nanoscopic strips of adhesive tape (Hansen & Autumn 2005, Huber et al. 2005a, Spolenak et al. 2005).”