Adhesion enhancement in a biomimetic fibrillar interface.

[1]  Anand Jagota,et al.  Mechanics of Adhesion Through a Fibrillar Microstructure1 , 2002, Integrative and comparative biology.

[2]  A B Kesel,et al.  Adhesion measurements on the attachment devices of the jumping spider Evarcha arcuata , 2003, Journal of Experimental Biology.

[3]  L. Mahadevan,et al.  Peeling from a biomimetically patterned thin elastic film , 2004, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

[4]  Stanislav N. Gorb,et al.  The effect of surface roughness on the adhesion of elastic plates with application to biological systems , 2003 .

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

[6]  A. Jagota,et al.  Crack blunting and the strength of soft elastic solids , 2003, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

[7]  Huajian Gao,et al.  Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature , 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[8]  Stanislav N. Gorb,et al.  The design of the fly adhesive pad: distal tenent setae are adapted to the delivery of an adhesive secretion , 1998, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences.

[9]  J. Brédas,et al.  Polymer-solid Interfaces : proceedings of the First International Conference, Namur, Belgium, 2-6 September 1991 , 1992 .

[10]  A. Jagota,et al.  Analysis of a compressive shear test for adhesion between elastomeric polymers and rigid substrates , 2000 .

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

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

[13]  Hiroshi Tada,et al.  The stress analysis of cracks handbook , 2000 .

[14]  Jun Young Chung,et al.  Roles of discontinuities in bio-inspired adhesive pads , 2005, Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

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

[16]  J. A. Peterson,et al.  Convergent and Alternative Designs in the Digital Adhesive Pads of Scincid Lizards , 1982, Science.

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

[19]  Anand Jagota,et al.  Fracture of Glass/Poly(vinyl butyral) (Butacite®) Laminates in Biaxial Flexure , 1999 .

[20]  Bo N. J. Persson,et al.  On the mechanism of adhesion in biological systems , 2003 .

[21]  Huajian Gao,et al.  Flaw tolerant bulk and surface nanostructures of biological systems. , 2004, Mechanics & chemistry of biosystems : MCB.

[22]  Huajian Gao,et al.  Mechanics of hierarchical adhesion structures of geckos , 2005 .

[23]  R. M. Cannon,et al.  Cyclic fatigue-crack propagation along ceramic/metal interfaces , 1991 .

[24]  T. Eisner,et al.  Defense by foot adhesion in a beetle (Hemisphaerota cyanea). , 2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[25]  Huajian Gao,et al.  Shape insensitive optimal adhesion of nanoscale fibrillar structures. , 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[26]  A. Jagota,et al.  Design of biomimetic fibrillar interfaces: 2. Mechanics of enhanced adhesion , 2004, Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

[27]  A. Jagota,et al.  Design of biomimetic fibrillar interfaces: 1. Making contact , 2004, Journal of The Royal Society Interface.