Funnel-Shaped Microstructures for Strong Reversible Adhesion

Numerical study of adhesion enhancement by composite fibrils with soft tip layers

(2017) Ram Gopal Balijepalli et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Composite Pillars with a Tunable Interface for Adhesion to Rough Substrates

(2016) Sarah C. L. Fischer et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fibrillar Elastomeric Micropatterns Create Tunable Adhesion Even to Rough Surfaces

(2016) Viktoriia Barreau et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

The springtail cuticle as a blueprint for omniphobic surfaces

(2016) René Hensel et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Numerical simulation of the edge stress singularity and the adhesion strength for compliant mushroom fibrils adhered to rigid substrates

(2016) R.G. Balijepalli et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Bioinspired polydimethylsiloxane-based composites with high shear resistance against wet tissue

(2016) Sarah C.L. Fischer et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Load sharing in bioinspired fibrillar adhesives with backing layer interactions and interfacial misalignment

(2016) Mattia Bacca et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Detachment of an adhered micropillar from a dissimilar substrate

(2015) S.N. Khaderi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Continuous and Scalable Fabrication of Bioinspired Dry Adhesives via a Roll-to-Roll Process with Modulated Ultraviolet-Curable Resin

(2014) Hoon Yi et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Scaling and biomechanics of surface attachment in climbing animals

(2014) D. Labonte et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Capillary adhesion at the nanometer scale

(2014) Shengfeng Cheng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

The optimal shape of elastomer mushroom-like fibers for high and robust adhesion

(2014) Burak Aksak et al.   Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology

Biologically Inspired Omniphobic Surfaces by Reverse Imprint Lithography

(2013) René Hensel et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

A microfabricated gecko-inspired controllable and reusable dry adhesive

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

Tunable nano-replication to explore the omniphobic characteristics of springtail skin

(2013) René Hensel et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Single macropillars as model systems for tilt angle dependent adhesion measurements

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

Robust large-area synthetic dry adhesives

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

Sticky Bio-inspired Micropillars: Finding the Best Shape

(2012) Giuseppe Carbone et al.   Small

Enhanced Skin Adhesive Patch with Modulus-Tunable Composite Micropillars

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

Biologically Inspired Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive Microstructures

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

Adhesion of Flat and Structured PDMS Samples to Spherical and Flat Probes: A Comparative Study

(2011) Elmar Kroner et al.   The Journal of Adhesion

Anisotropic Adhesion Properties of Triangular-Tip-Shaped Micropillars

(2011) Moon Kyu Kwak et al.   Small

Bi-Stable Adhesion of a Surface with a Dimple

(2010) Robert M. McMeeking et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

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

(2010) Marleen Kamperman et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

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

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

Effect of leaning angle of gecko-inspired slanted polymer nanohairs on dry adhesion

(2010) Hoon Eui Jeong et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Bioinspired pressure actuated adhesive system

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

Spatulate structures in biological fibrillar adhesion

(2010) Michael Varenberg et al.   Soft Matter

Frictional Adhesion of Patterned Surfaces and Implications for Gecko and Biomimetic Systems

(2009) Hongbo Zeng 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

The effect of shape on the adhesion of fibrillar surfaces

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

Adhesion design maps for fibrillar adhesives: The effect of shape

(2008) Christian Greiner et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Defect Dependent Adhesion of Fibrillar Surfaces

(2008) Robert M. McMeeking et al.   The Journal of Adhesion