Dynamically Tunable Dry Adhesion via Subsurface Stiffness Modulation

Stiffness Control With Shape Memory Polymer in Underactuated Robotic Origamis

(2017) Amir Firouzeh et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Elevated temperature adhesion of bioinspired polymeric micropatterns to glass

(2017) Viktoriia Barreau et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

A Soft Gripper with Rigidity Tunable Elastomer Strips as Ligaments

(2017) Amir Mohammadi Nasab et al.   Soft Robotics

Liquid Metal-Conductive Thermoplastic Elastomer Integration for Low-Voltage Stiffness Tuning

(2017) Steven Rich et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Composite Pillars with a Tunable Interface for Adhesion to Rough Substrates

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

Phase Change of Gallium Enables Highly Reversible and Switchable Adhesion

(2016) Zhou Ye et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Variable Stiffness Materials

(2016) Qibing Pei   Soft Robotics

Microassembly of Heterogeneous Materials using Transfer Printing and Thermal Processing

(2016) Hohyun Keum et al.   Scientific Reports

Orthogonal Control of Stability and Tunable Dry Adhesion by Tailoring the Shape of Tapered Nanopillar Arrays

(2015) Younghyun Cho et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Achieving enhanced and tunable adhesion via composite posts

(2015) H. K. Minsky et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Rigidity-tuning conductive elastomer

(2015) Wanliang Shan et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Creating Gecko-Like Adhesives for “Real World” Surfaces

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

Interface mechanics of adhesiveless microtransfer printing processes

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

Controllable Particle Adhesion with a Magnetically Actuated Synthetic Gecko Adhesive

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

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

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

Scaling Normal Adhesion Force Capacity with a Generalized Parameter

(2013) Michael D. Bartlett et al.   LANGMUIR

Soft-matter composites with electrically tunable elastic rigidity

(2013) Wanliang Shan et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

(2013) Bryan E. Schubert et al.   RSC Advances

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

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

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

(2012) Andrew Carlson et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Looking Beyond Fibrillar Features to Scale Gecko-Like Adhesion

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

Redirecting Valvular Myofibroblasts into Dormant Fibroblasts through Light-mediated Reduction in Substrate Modulus

(2012) Huan Wang et al.   PLoS One

Controllable biomimetic adhesion using embedded phase change material

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

Stooped Nanohairs: Geometry-Controllable, Unidirectional, Reversible, and Robust Gecko-like Dry Adhesive

(2009) Tae-il Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2009) Hongbo Zeng et al.   LANGMUIR

Gecko-Inspired Directional and Controllable Adhesion

(2009) Michael P. Murphy et al.   Small

Reversible dry micro-fibrillar adhesives with thermally controllable adhesion

(2009) Seok Kim et al.   Soft Matter

A Gecko-Inspired Reversible Adhesive

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

Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis

(2008) J. R. Capadona et al.   SCIENCE

Adhesion and Friction Force Coupling of Gecko Setal Arrays:  Implications for Structured Adhesive Surfaces†

(2007) Boxin Zhao et al.   LANGMUIR