Shape insensitive optimal adhesion of nanoscale fibrillar structures
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Shape insensitive optimal adhesion of nanoscale fibrillar structures.
Gecko and many insects have adopted nanoscale fibrillar structures on their feet as adhesion devices. Here, we consider adhesion between a single fiber and a substrate by van der Waals or electrostatic interactions. For a given contact area A, the theoretical pull-off force of the fiber is sigma(th)A where sigma(th) is the theoretical strength of adhesion. We show that it is possible to design ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0400757101