Switchable Adhesives for Multifunctional Interfaces

Kirigami-Inspired Structures for Smart Adhesion

(2018) Doh-Gyu Hwang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

In Situ Alloying of Thermally Conductive Polymer Composites by Combining Liquid and Solid Metal Microadditives

(2018) Matthew I. Ralphs et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Wet-Responsive, Reconfigurable, and Biocompatible Hydrogel Adhesive Films for Transfer Printing of Nanomembranes

(2018) Hoon Yi et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Engineering Micropatterned Dry Adhesives: From Contact Theory to Handling Applications

(2018) René Hensel et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Robotic Grippers

(2018) Jun Shintake et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Kirigami enhances film adhesion

(2018) Ruike Zhao et al.   Soft Matter

Switching “on” and “off” the adhesion in stimuli-responsive elastomers

(2018) S. Kaiser et al.   Soft Matter

Dynamically Tunable Dry Adhesion via Subsurface Stiffness Modulation

(2018) Milad Tatari et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Electrochemically enabled manipulation of gallium-based liquid metals within porous copper

(2018) Jin-Lei Ma et al.   Materials Horizons

Laser Cutting as a Rapid Method for Fabricating Thin Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Robots

(2018) Amir Ali Amiri Moghadam et al.   Soft Robotics

Mechanical and Functional Tradeoffs in Multiphase Liquid Metal, Solid Particle Soft Composites

(2018) Ravi Tutika et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

The effects of electroadhesive clutch design parameters on performance characteristics

(2018) Stuart B Diller et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES

Reversible Chemo-Topographic Control of Adhesion in Polydopamine Nanomembranes

(2018) Po-Ju Chiang et al.   MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING

Multifunctional ferrofluid-infused surfaces with reconfigurable multiscale topography

(2018) Wendong Wang et al.   NATURE

Photodetachable Adhesion

(2018) Yang Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Adhesion of a rigid punch to a confined elastic layer revisited

(2017) René Hensel et al.   JOURNAL OF ADHESION

Controllable load sharing for soft adhesive interfaces on three-dimensional surfaces

(2017) Sukho Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High thermal conductivity in soft elastomers with elongated liquid metal inclusions

(2017) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A comparison of critical shear force in low-voltage, all-polymer electroadhesives to a basic friction model

(2017) Abraham Simpson Chen et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Switchable bumps of a bead-embedded elastomer surface with variable adhesion

(2017) T. Ohzono et al.   Soft Matter

Revisiting the generalized scaling law for adhesion: role of compliance and extension to progressive failure

(2017) Ahmad R. Mojdehi et al.   Soft Matter

Bio-inspired reversible underwater adhesive

(2017) Yanhua Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness

(2017) Michiru Nishita et al.   Scientific Reports

Stimuli-Responsive Reversible Two-Level Adhesion from a Structurally Dynamic Shape-Memory Polymer

(2016) Brian T. Michal et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Rapid Fabrication of Soft, Multilayered Electronics for Wearable Biomonitoring

(2016) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Thermally Active Liquid Crystal Network Gripper Mimicking the Self-Peeling of Gecko Toe Pads

(2016) Hamed Shahsavan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Phase Change of Gallium Enables Highly Reversible and Switchable Adhesion

(2016) Zhou Ye et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Octopus-Inspired Smart Adhesive Pads for Transfer Printing of Semiconducting Nanomembranes

(2016) Hochan Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Supramolecular polymer adhesives: advanced materials inspired by nature

(2016) Christian Heinzmann et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Using microfluidics to control soft adhesion

(2016) L. O. Prieto-López et al.   JOURNAL OF ADHESION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Adhesiveless Transfer Printing of Ultrathin Microscale Semiconductor Materials by Controlling the Bending Radius of an Elastomeric Stamp

(2016) Sungbum Cho et al.   LANGMUIR

4D Printing of Reversible Shape Morphing Hydrogel Structures

(2016) Sina Naficy et al.   MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING

Printing soft matter in three dimensions

(2016) Ryan L. Truby et al.   NATURE

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Fracture and adhesion of soft materials: a review

(2016) Costantino Creton et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Perching and takeoff of a robotic insect on overhangs using switchable electrostatic adhesion

(2016) M. A. Graule et al.   SCIENCE

Light-melt adhesive based on dynamic carbon frameworks in a columnar liquid-crystal phase

(2016) Shohei Saito et al.   Nature Communications

A Novel, Variable Stiffness Robotic Gripper Based on Integrated Soft Actuating and Particle Jamming

(2016) Ying Wei et al.   Soft Robotics

Multimaterial 4D Printing with Tailorable Shape Memory Polymers

(2016) Qi Ge et al.   Scientific Reports

Magnetic Field Switchable Dry Adhesives

(2015) Jeffrey Krahn et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Switchable Adhesion in Vacuum Using Bio-Inspired Dry Adhesives

(2015) Julia Purtov et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Reverse Adhesion of a Gecko-Inspired Synthetic Adhesive Switched by an Ion-Exchange Polymer–Metal Composite Actuator

(2015) Dong-Jie Guo et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Novel Bioinspired Switchable Adhesive with Three Distinct Adhesive States

(2015) Paula Yagüe Isla et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Temperature-Induced Switchable Adhesion using Nickel-Titanium-Polydimethylsiloxane Hybrid Surfaces

(2015) Mareike Frensemeier et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Actively controlled fibrillar friction surfaces

(2015) H. Marvi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Switching adhesion and friction by light using photosensitive guest–host interactions

(2015) Johanna Blass et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Adhesion mechanism of a gecko-inspired oblique structure with an adhesive tip for asymmetric detachment

(2015) Yu Sekiguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Shape memory polymers: Past, present and future developments

(2015) Martin D. Hager et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Effect of friction on the peeling test at zero-degrees

(2015) Suomi Ponce et al.   Soft Matter

Biomimetic wall-shaped hierarchical microstructure for gecko-like attachment

(2015) Haytam Kasem et al.   Soft Matter

Enhancing Adhesion of Elastomeric Composites through Facile Patterning of Surface Discontinuities

(2014) Samuel A. Pendergraph et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photochemically Reversible Liquefaction and Solidification of Multiazobenzene Sugar-Alcohol Derivatives and Application to Reworkable Adhesives

(2014) Haruhisa Akiyama et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Light-Induced Bonding and Debonding with Supramolecular Adhesives

(2014) Christian Heinzmann et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Elastomeric Angled Microflaps with Reversible Adhesion for Transfer-Printing Semiconductor Membranes onto Dry Surfaces

(2014) Byungsuk Yoo et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Study of Physically Transient Insulating Materials as a Potential Platform for Transient Electronics and Bioelectronics

(2014) Handan Acar et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Grippers Using Micro-fibrillar Adhesives for Transfer Printing

(2014) Sukho Song et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High Capacity, Easy Release Adhesives From Renewable Materials

(2014) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Creating Gecko-Like Adhesives for “Real World” Surfaces

(2014) Daniel R. King et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Adhesion control by inflation: implications from biology to artificial attachment device

(2014) Kirstin Dening et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Interface mechanics of adhesiveless microtransfer printing processes

(2014) H.-J. Kim-Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Compliance switching for adhesion control

(2014) Jared Risan et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Improving controllable adhesion on both rough and smooth surfaces with a hybrid electrostatic/gecko-like adhesive

(2014) D. Ruffatto et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Gecko-Inspired but Chemically Switched Friction and Adhesion on Nanofibrillar Surfaces

(2014) Shuanhong Ma et al.   Small

Recent advances in wrinkle-based dry adhesion

(2014) Yudi Rahmawan et al.   Soft Matter

High-resolution nanotransfer printing applicable to diverse surfaces via interface-targeted adhesion switching

(2014) Jae Won Jeong et al.   Nature Communications

A metal–ion-responsive adhesive material via switching of molecular recognition properties

(2014) Takashi Nakamura et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanically Switchable Elastomeric Microfibrillar Adhesive Surfaces for Transfer Printing

(2014) Veikko Sariola et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Material transfer controlled by elastomeric layer thickness

(2014) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   Materials Horizons

Robotic Granular Jamming: Does the Membrane Matter?

(2014) Allen Jiang et al.   Soft Robotics

Microstructured Shape Memory Polymer Surfaces with Reversible Dry Adhesion

(2013) Jeffrey D. Eisenhaure et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Controllable Interfacial Adhesion Applied to Transfer Light and Fragile Objects by Using Gecko Inspired Mushroom-Shaped Pillar Surface

(2013) Ming Zhou et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biomimetic Bidirectional Switchable Adhesive Inspired by the Gecko

(2013) Kejia Jin et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Materials and Fabrication Processes for Transient and Bioresorbable High-Performance Electronics

(2013) Suk-Won Hwang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Controllable Particle Adhesion with a Magnetically Actuated Synthetic Gecko Adhesive

(2013) Andrew G. Gillies et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bio-Inspired Hierarchical Polymer Fiber-Carbon Nanotube Adhesives

(2013) Zhuxia Rong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Magnetically Actuated Patterns for Bioinspired Reversible Adhesion (Dry and Wet)

(2013) Dirk-Michael Drotlef et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Switchable static friction of piezoelectric composite—silicon wafer contacts

(2013) D. A. van den Ende et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Preload-responsive adhesion: effects of aspect ratio, tip shape and alignment

(2013) D. Paretkar et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Scaling Normal Adhesion Force Capacity with a Generalized Parameter

(2013) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   LANGMUIR

Reversible Adhesion Switching of Porous Fibrillar Adhesive Pads by Humidity

(2013) Longjian Xue et al.   NANO LETTERS

Design and control of a climbing robot based on hot melt adhesion

(2013) Marc Osswald et al.   ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

A microfabricated gecko-inspired controllable and reusable dry adhesive

(2013) Sathya Chary et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Switching Off the Tackiness of a Nanocomposite Adhesive in 30 s via Infrared Sintering

(2012) Robert S. Gurney et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Opportunities with Fabric Composites as Unique Flexible Substrates

(2012) Samuel A. Pendergraph et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Beetle-Inspired Bidirectional, Asymmetric Interlocking Using Geometry-Tunable Nanohairs

(2012) Changhyun Pang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Gecko-Inspired Controllable Adhesive Structures Applied to Micromanipulation

(2012) Yiğit Mengüç et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Active, Programmable Elastomeric Surfaces with Tunable Adhesion for Deterministic Assembly by Transfer Printing

(2012) Andrew Carlson et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

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

Bioinspired Actuated Adhesive Patterns of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2012) Jiaxi Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Elastomer Surfaces with Directionally Dependent Adhesion Strength and Their Use in Transfer Printing with Continuous Roll-to-Roll Applications

(2012) Sang Yoon Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Looking Beyond Fibrillar Features to Scale Gecko-Like Adhesion

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

Transfer Printing Techniques for Materials Assembly and Micro/Nanodevice Fabrication

(2012) Andrew Carlson et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photochemically Reversible Liquefaction and Solidification of Single Compounds Based on a Sugar Alcohol Scaffold with Multi Azo-Arms

(2012) Haruhisa Akiyama et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The Gecko’s Toe: Scaling Directional Adhesives for Climbing Applications

(2012) E. W. Hawkes et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Buckling of an Adhesive Polymeric Micropillar

(2012) Dadhichi R. Paretkar et al.   The Journal of Adhesion

Nonangled anisotropic elastomeric dry adhesives with tailorable normal adhesion strength and high directionality

(2012) Dan Sameoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ADHESION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Laser-Driven Micro Transfer Placement of Prefabricated Microstructures

(2012) Reza Saeidpourazar et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

A multimaterial electrohydrodynamic jet (E-jet) printing system

(2012) E Sutanto et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Reversible Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Adhesive of PS-b-PNIPAAm Copolymer Brush Nanopillar Arrays for Mimicking the Climbing Aptitude of Geckos

(2012) Jem-Kun Chen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Vertical Anisotropic Microfibers for a Gecko-Inspired Adhesive

(2012) John Tamelier et al.   LANGMUIR

Friction and Adhesion of Gecko-Inspired PDMS Flaps on Rough Surfaces

(2012) Jing Yu et al.   LANGMUIR

Enhanced Adhesion of Elastic Materials to Small-Scale Wrinkles

(2012) Chelsea S. Davis et al.   LANGMUIR

Design and Fabrication of Gecko-Inspired Adhesives

(2012) Kejia Jin et al.   LANGMUIR

Toughening and Asymmetry in Peeling of Heterogeneous Adhesives

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

Thermo-mechanical modeling of laser-driven non-contact transfer printing: two-dimensional analysis

(2012) Rui Li et al.   Soft Matter

Light-controlled quick switch of adhesion on a micro-arrayed liquid crystal polymer superhydrophobic film

(2012) Chao Li et al.   Soft Matter

Enhanced Skin Adhesive Patch with Modulus-Tunable Composite Micropillars

(2012) Won Gyu Bae et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive for Robotic Applications

(2011) Jing Yu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

In Situ Fully Light-Driven Switching of Superhydrophobic Adhesion

(2011) Chao Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Robotics for Chemists

(2011) Filip Ilievski et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Shear-enhanced adhesiveless transfer printing for use in deterministic materials assembly

(2011) Andrew Carlson et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

The effect of aspect ratio on adhesion and stiffness for soft elastic fibres

(2011) B. Aksak et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Shape-Memory Polymers—A Class of Novel Smart Materials

(2011) Jinsong Leng et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Anisotropic Adhesion Properties of Triangular-Tip-Shaped Micropillars

(2011) Moon Kyu Kwak et al.   Small

A comparative study on switchable adhesion between thermoresponsive polymer brushes on flat and rough surfaces

(2011) Ekaterina Svetushkina et al.   Soft Matter

Mechanics of wrinkled surface adhesion

(2011) Chelsea S. Davis et al.   Soft Matter

Tuning elastomer friction by hexagonal surface patterning

(2011) Boris Murarash et al.   Soft Matter

In situ observation of contact mechanisms in bioinspired adhesives at high magnification

(2011) Dadhichi Paretkar et al.   MRS Communications

Friction and Adhesion of Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Structures for Biomimetic Dry Adhesives: Multiscale Modeling

(2010) Shihao Hu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

(2010) Marleen Kamperman et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Switchable Adhesion on Liquid/Solid Interfaces

(2010) Mingjie Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Adhesion Selectivity Using Rippled Surfaces

(2010) Shilpi Vajpayee et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Gecko-Inspired Surfaces: A Path to Strong and Reversible Dry Adhesives

(2010) Luciano F. Boesel et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A “self-pinning” adhesive based on responsive surface wrinkles

(2010) Edwin P. Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Active Switching of Adhesion in a Film-Terminated Fibrillar Structure

(2010) Nichole Nadermann et al.   LANGMUIR

Stretchable, Adhesion-Tunable Dry Adhesive by Surface Wrinkling

(2010) Hoon Eui Jeong et al.   LANGMUIR

Bioinspired pressure actuated adhesive system

(2010) Dadhichi Paretkar et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

A thermally responsive, rigid, and reversible adhesive

(2010) Xiaofan Luo et al.   POLYMER

Capillarity-based switchable adhesion

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

Microstructured elastomeric surfaces with reversible adhesion and examples of their use in deterministic assembly by transfer printing

(2010) S. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

(2010) E. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controllable biomimetic adhesion using embedded phase change material

(2010) J Krahn et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

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

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

Biocompatible polymeric materials with switchable adhesion properties

(2010) Alla Synytska et al.   Soft Matter

Hexagonal Surface Micropattern for Dry and Wet Friction

(2009) Michael Varenberg et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Rate-dependent frictional adhesion in natural and synthetic gecko setae

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

A microfabricated wedge-shaped adhesive array displaying gecko-like dynamic adhesion, directionality and long lifetime

(2009) A. Parness et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Thermoresponsive PEG-Based Polymer Layers: Surface Characterization with AFM Force Measurements

(2009) Stefanie Kessel et al.   LANGMUIR

Density Effects on Collapse, Compression, and Adhesion of Thermoresponsive Polymer Brushes

(2009) Ibrahim B. Malham et al.   LANGMUIR

A nontransferring dry adhesive with hierarchical polymer nanohairs

(2009) H. E. Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reversible dry micro-fibrillar adhesives with thermally controllable adhesion

(2009) Seok Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Surface Wrinkles for Smart Adhesion

(2008) E. P. Chan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Gecko-Inspired Reversible Adhesive

(2008) Michael T. Northen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Peeling Reversible Dry Adhesive System

(2008) Tao Xie et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

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

Role of Tilted Adhesion Fibrils (Setae) in the Adhesion and Locomotion of Gecko-like Systems†

(2008) Boxin Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Microscopic Modeling of the Dynamics of Frictional Adhesion in the Gecko Attachment System†

(2008) Tetsuo Yamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Adhesive elastic contacts: JKR and more

(2008) E Barthel   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

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

(2008) L. Qu et al.   SCIENCE

Switching of friction by binary polymer brushes

(2008) Mukesh Kumar Vyas et al.   Soft Matter

Mechanically tunable dry adhesive from wrinkled elastomers

(2008) Pei-Chun Lin et al.   Soft Matter

Creasing instability of surface-attached hydrogels

(2008) Verónica Trujillo et al.   Soft Matter

Sliding friction at elastomer/glass contact: Influence of the wetting conditions and instability analysis

(2008) Fabrice Deleau et al.   TRIBOLOGY INTERNATIONAL