Material gradients in fibrillar insect attachment systems: the role of joint-like elements

Engineering Micropatterned Dry Adhesives: From Contact Theory to Handling Applications

(2018) René Hensel et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Holding tight to feathers – structural specializations and attachment properties of the avian ectoparasiteCrataerina pallida(Diptera, Hippoboscidae)

(2018) Dennis S. Petersen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tarsal attachment devices of the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

(2018) Manuela Rebora et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

How tight are beetle hugs? Attachment in mating leaf beetles

(2017) Dagmar Voigt et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Sexual dimorphism in the attachment ability of the ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata on soft substrates

(2016) Lars Heepe et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Elasto-capillarity in insect fibrillar adhesion

(2016) Sophie Gernay et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Influence of Packing Density and Surface Roughness of Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Adhesive Properties of Gecko-Inspired Mimetics

(2015) Bingan Chen et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Tribological properties of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

(2015) Clemens F. Schaber et al.   CARBON

Single Macroscopic Pillars as Model System for Bioinspired Adhesives: Influence of Tip Dimension, Aspect Ratio, and Tilt Angle

(2014) Maurizio Micciché et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Adhesion tilt-tolerance in bio-inspired mushroom-shaped adhesive microstructure

(2014) Lars Heepe et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Fibrillar adhesion with no clusterisation: Functional significance of material gradient along adhesive setae of insects

(2014) Stanislav N Gorb et al.   Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology

Spatial model of the gecko foot hair: functional significance of highly specialized non-uniform geometry

(2014) A. E. Filippov et al.   Interface Focus

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

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

(2013) Henrik Peisker et al.   Nature Communications

Single macropillars as model systems for tilt angle dependent adhesion measurements

(2012) E. Kroner et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADHESION AND ADHESIVES

Sticky Bio-inspired Micropillars: Finding the Best Shape

(2012) Giuseppe Carbone et al.   Small

Biologically Inspired Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive Microstructures

(2011) Lars Heepe et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Detailed three-dimensional visualization of resilin in the exoskeleton of arthropods using confocal laser scanning microscopy

(2011) J. MICHELS et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

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

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

Deep UV patterning of acrylic masters for molding biomimetic dry adhesives

(2010) D Sameoto et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Assessment of Congo red as a fluorescence marker for the exoskeleton of small crustaceans and the cuticle of polychaetes

(2010) J. MICHELS et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Spatulate structures in biological fibrillar adhesion

(2010) Michael Varenberg et al.   Soft Matter

Sexual dimorphism in the attachment ability of the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) to rough substrates

(2008) D. Voigt et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Carbon Nanotube Arrays with Strong Shear Binding-On and Easy Normal Lifting-Off

(2008) L. Qu et al.   SCIENCE