Scaling and biomechanics of surface attachment in climbing animals

Contact between rough surfaces and a criterion for macroscopic adhesion

(2014) Lars Pastewka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant surfaces with cuticular folds and their replicas: Influence of microstructuring and surface chemistry on the attachment of a leaf beetle

(2013) Bettina Prüm et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Sticking like sticky tape: tree frogs use friction forces to enhance attachment on overhanging surfaces

(2013) T. Endlein et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Scaling Normal Adhesion Force Capacity with a Generalized Parameter

(2013) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   LANGMUIR

Adhesion Failure at 180 000 Frames per Second: Direct Observation of the Detachment Process of a Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive

(2013) Lars Heepe et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The Great Silk Alternative: Multiple Co-Evolution of Web Loss and Sticky Hairs in Spiders

(2013) Jonas O. Wolff et al.   PLoS One

Breaking up the Wall: Metal-Enrichment in Ovipositors, but Not in Mandibles, Co-Varies with Substrate Hardness in Gall-Wasps and Their Associates

(2013) Carlo Polidori et al.   PLoS One

Functionally Different Pads on the Same Foot Allow Control of Attachment: Stick Insects Have Load-Sensitive “Heel” Pads for Friction and Shear-Sensitive “Toe” Pads for Adhesion

(2013) David Labonte et al.   PLoS One

Dynamic friction in natural and synthetic gecko setal arrays

(2013) J. B. Puthoff et al.   Soft Matter

Evidence for a material gradient in the adhesive tarsal setae of the ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata

(2013) Henrik Peisker et al.   Nature Communications

In vivo dynamics of the internal fibrous structure in smooth adhesive pads of insects

(2012) Jan-Henning Dirks et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Designing Bio-Inspired Adhesives for Shear Loading: From Simple Structures to Complex Patterns

(2012) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Looking Beyond Fibrillar Features to Scale Gecko-Like Adhesion

(2012) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Flower movement increases pollinator preference for flowers with better grip

(2012) Katrina Alcorn et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Self-cleaning in tree frog toe pads; a mechanism for recovering from contamination without the need for grooming

(2012) N. Crawford et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Ground tyre rubber (GTR) in thermoplastics, thermosets, and rubbers

(2012) J. Karger-Kocsis et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Macroscale adhesion of gecko setae reflects nanoscale differences in subsurface composition

(2012) P. Loskill et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Toughening and Asymmetry in Peeling of Heterogeneous Adhesives

(2012) S. Xia et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Repeated Origin and Loss of Adhesive Toepads in Geckos

(2012) Tony Gamble et al.   PLoS One

Geometry-controlled adhesion: revisiting the contact splitting hypothesis

(2011) Michael Varenberg et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Relationships among morphology, clinging performance and habitat use in Liolaemini lizards

(2011) M. J. TULLI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Beetle adhesive hairs differ in stiffness and stickiness: in vivo adhesion measurements on individual setae

(2011) James M. R. Bullock et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Arachnids Secrete a Fluid over Their Adhesive Pads

(2011) Anne M. Peattie et al.   PLoS One

Origin of the superior adhesive performance of mushroom-shaped microstructured surfaces

(2011) Giuseppe Carbone et al.   Soft Matter

Functional Adhesive Surfaces with “Gecko” Effect: The Concept of Contact Splitting

(2010) Marleen Kamperman et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Shear-Mode Contact Splitting for a Microtextured Elastomer Film

(2010) Rebecca K. Kramer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Capillarity-based switchable adhesion

(2010) Michael J. Vogel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent advances in the fabrication and adhesion testing of biomimetic dry adhesives

(2010) D Sameoto et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Spatulate structures in biological fibrillar adhesion

(2010) Michael Varenberg et al.   Soft Matter

Conical Epidermal Cells Allow Bees to Grip Flowers and Increase Foraging Efficiency

(2009) Heather M. Whitney et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Division of labour and sex differences between fibrillar, tarsal adhesive pads in beetles: effective elastic modulus and attachment performance

(2009) J. M. R. Bullock et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Rate-dependent frictional adhesion in natural and synthetic gecko setae

(2009) N. Gravish et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Wet Self-Cleaning of Biologically Inspired Elastomer Mushroom Shaped Microfibrillar Adhesives

(2009) Seok Kim et al.   LANGMUIR

Effect of Rate on Adhesion and Static Friction of a Film-Terminated Fibrillar Interface

(2009) Shilpi Vajpayee et al.   LANGMUIR

Geometry- and velocity-constrained cohesive zones and mixed-mode fracture/adhesion energy of interfaces with periodic cohesive interactions

(2009) B. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The interplay between claw morphology and microhabitat use in neotropical iguanian lizards

(2009) M.J. Tulli et al.   ZOOLOGY

The effect of shape on the adhesion of fibrillar surfaces

(2008) A.V. Spuskanyuk et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Ontogenetic scaling of scansorial surface area and setal dimensions ofChondrodactylus bibronii(Gekkota: Gekkonidae): testing predictions derived from cross-species comparisons of gekkotans

(2008) Nicole B. Webster et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

A two-dimensional model for enhanced adhesion of film-terminated fibrillar interfaces by crack trapping

(2008) Lulin Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Micromechanics of smooth adhesive organs in stick insects: pads are mechanically anisotropic and softer towards the adhesive surface

(2008) Ingo Scholz et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Comparison of smooth and hairy attachment pads in insects: friction, adhesion and mechanisms for direction-dependence

(2008) J. M. R. Bullock et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spinodal strength of liquids, solids and glasses

(2008) A R Imre et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Capillary adhesion between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces

(2008) B N J Persson   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Pre-tension generates strongly reversible adhesion of a spatula pad on substrate

(2008) B. Chen et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Enhancement of Capillary Forces by Multiple Liquid Bridges

(2008) E. J. De Souza et al.   LANGMUIR

Gecko adhesion: evolutionary nanotechnology

(2008) K. Autumn et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Pushing versus pulling: division of labour between tarsal attachment pads in cockroaches

(2008) C. J Clemente et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Frictional and elastic energy in gecko adhesive detachment

(2007) N. Gravish et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface