Biologically inspired polymer microfibers with spatulate tips as repeatable fibrillar adhesives

By Seok Kim, Metin Sitti. 2006

337 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c2f88bb0a538431381c64698c4b8a40cc4f7c181

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. N. Pesika
2. Hongbo Zeng
3. Yu Tian
4. Mark R. Cutkosky
5. Aaron Parness
6. Matthew Spenko
7. Daniel Santos
8. Ming Zhou

In Mechanics of Materials

1. N. Pesika
2. Yu Tian
3. Mark R. Cutkosky
4. Aaron Parness
5. Matthew Spenko
6. Daniel Santos
7. Ming Zhou
8. Sangbae Kim

In Surfaces, Coatings and Films

1. Mark R. Cutkosky
2. Aaron Parness
3. Matthew Spenko
4. Daniel Santos
5. Sangbae Kim
6. Hongbo Zeng
7. N. Pesika
8. J. Israelachvili

Citations in the corpus

• Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces (2013, background): “Kim and Sitti fabricated a fibrillar mushroom surface with polyurethane (PU) that generated 180 kPa [109], and Davies reported that a fibrillar poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) surface can reach 219 kPa [106].”
• Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion (2008, background): “In addition to effective stiffness of corresponding structure, the size and shape of the contacting elements is important in sustaining adhesion [1], [14]–[16], [22], [35].”
• Directional adhesion for climbing: theoretical and practical considerations (2007, methodology): “Examples of synthetic adhesives comprised of stalks made from materials such as polyurethane, silicone rubber, or carbon nanotubes can be found in [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19].”