A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos

[1]  Eduard Arzt,et al.  Biological and artificial attachment devices: Lessons for materials scientists from flies and geckos , 2006 .

[2]  Norbert F Scherer,et al.  Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion , 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[3]  Kimberly L. Turner,et al.  Meso-scale adhesion testing of integrated micro- and nano-scale structures , 2006 .

[4]  G. Whitesides.  The origins and the future of microfluidics , 2006, Nature.

[5]  Bruce P. Lee,et al.  Rapid Gel Formation and Adhesion in Photocurable and Biodegradable Block Copolymers with High DOPA Content , 2006 .

[6]  Ralph Spolenak,et al.  Evidence for capillarity contributions to gecko adhesion from single spatula nanomechanical measurements. , 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[7]  A. Crosby,et al.  Controlling polymer adhesion with "pancakes". , 2005, Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.

[8]  Pavel Neuzil,et al.  The nature of the gecko lizard adhesive force. , 2005, Biophysical journal.

[9]  Kimberly L. Turner,et al.  A batch fabricated biomimetic dry adhesive , 2005 .

[10]  Ali Dhinojwala,et al.  Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes. , 2005, Chemical communications.

[11]  Ralph Spolenak,et al.  Resolving the nanoscale adhesion of individual gecko spatulae by atomic force microscopy , 2005, Biology Letters.

[12]  J. Herbert Waite,et al.  Mussel Adhesion: Finding the Tricks Worth Mimicking , 2005 .

[13]  D. Bentz,et al.  In Situ Spectroscopic Study of Water at the Asphalt/Siliceous Substrate Interface and Its Implication in Stripping , 2005 .

[14]  H. Cha,et al.  Expression of Functional Recombinant Mussel Adhesive Protein Mgfp-5 in Escherichia coli , 2004, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

[15]  S. Gorb,et al.  WHEN LESS IS MORE: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR TENACITY ENHANCEMENT BY DIVISION OF CONTACT AREA , 2004 .

[16]  Guillaume Haiat,et al.  ADHESIVE CONTACT OF VISCOELASTIC SPHERES: A HAND-WAVING INTRODUCTION , 2004 .

[17]  S. Gorb,et al.  From micro to nano contacts in biological attachment devices , 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[18]  A. Geim,et al.  Microfabricated adhesive mimicking gecko foot-hair , 2003, Nature materials.

[19]  Bruce P. Lee,et al.  Mussel adhesive protein mimetic polymers for the preparation of nonfouling surfaces. , 2003, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[20]  Ronald S. Fearing,et al.  Synthetic gecko foot-hair micro/nano-structures as dry adhesives , 2003 .

[21]  J Herbert Waite,et al.  Adhesion à la Moule1 , 2002, Integrative and comparative biology.

[22]  R. Full,et al.  Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae , 2002, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[23]  J. Waite,et al.  Polyphosphoprotein from the adhesive pads of Mytilus edulis. , 2001, Biochemistry.

[24]  R. Full,et al.  Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair , 2000, Nature.

[25]  Yu,et al.  Synthetic Polypeptide Mimics of Marine Adhesives. , 1998, Macromolecules.

[26]  K. Biemann,et al.  Hydroxyarginine-containing Polyphenolic Proteins in the Adhesive Plaques of the Marine Mussel Mytilus edulis(*) , 1995, The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

[27]  J. Bechhoefer,et al.  Calibration of atomic‐force microscope tips , 1993 .

[28]  J. Waite,et al.  Polyphenolic Substance of Mytilus edulis: Novel Adhesive Containing L-Dopa and Hydroxyproline. , 1981, Science.

[29]  R. Ruibal,et al.  The structure of the digital setae of lizards , 1965, Journal of morphology.

[30]  Teodor Gotszalk,et al.  Calibration of atomic force microscope , 2008 .

[31]  Ralph Spolenak,et al.  Adhesion design maps for bio-inspired attachment systems. , 2005, Acta biomaterialia.

[32]  Brian P. Frank,et al.  Adhesion of Mytilus edulis Foot Protein 1 on Silica: Ionic Effects on Biofouling , 2002, Biotechnology progress.

[33]  J. Waite,et al.  Nature's underwater adhesive specialist , 1987 .