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2000

  1. K. Autumn, Y. Liang, T. Hsieh, W. Zesch, W.-P. Chan, T. Kenny, R. Fearing, and R.J. Full, ``Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair'', Nature, vol. 405, pp. 681-685, June 8, 2000.
  2. S. Gorb and M. Scherge, ``Biological microtribology: anisotropy in frictional forces of orthopteran attachment pads reflects the ultrastructure of a highly deformable material,'' Proc. Royal Soc. London, B., vol. 267, pp. 1239-1244, 2000.

2002

  1. K. Autumn, M. Sitti, Y.A. Liang, A.M. Peattie, W.R. Hansen, S. Sponberg, T. Kenny, R. Fearing, J.N. Israelachvili, and R.J. Full, ``Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae,'' Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, vol. 99, no. 19, pp. 12252-12256, September 17, 2002.
  2. A. Jagota and S.J. Bennison, ``Mechanics of Adhesion Through a Fibrillar Microstructure,'' Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1140-1145, 2002.
  3. M. Sitti and R. S. Fearing, "Nanomolding based Fabrication of Synthetic Gecko Foot-Hair Micro/Nanostructures," Proc. of the IEEE Nanotechnology Conference, pp. 137-140, Washington, DC, USA, August 2002.

2003

  1. E. Arzt, S. Gorb, R. Spolenak, ``From micro to nano contacts in biological attachment devices,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, vol. 100, no. 19, pp. 10603-10606, 2003.
  2. D. Campolo, S.D. Jones and R. S. Fearing, ``Fabrication of Gecko foot-hair like nano structures and adhesion to random rough surfaces,'' IEEE Nano 2003 Aug 12-14, San Francisco.
  3. H. Gao, B. Ji, I.L. Jaeger, E. Arzt, and P. Fratzl, ``Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature,'' Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 100, no. 10, pp. 5597-5600, 2003. doi:10.1073/pnas.0631609100
  4. A.K. Geim, S.V. Dubonos, I.V. Grigorieva, K.S. Novoselov, A.A. Zhukov, and S. Y. Shapoval, ``Microfabricated adhesive mimicking gecko foot-hair,'' Nature Materials, 1 June 2003.
  5. B.N.J. Persson, ``On the mechanism of adhesion in biological systems,'' Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 118, no. 16, 22 April 2003.
  6. B.N.J. Persson and S. Gorb, ``The effect of surface roughness on the adhesion of elastic plates with applications to biological systems,'' Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 21, pp. 11437-11444, 2003.
  7. M. Sitti and R.S. Fearing, ``Synthetic Gecko Foot-Hair Micro/Nano Structures for Future Wall-Climbing Robots,'' Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation 2003, pp. 1164-1170, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 2003.
  8. M. Sitti and R.S. Fearing, ``Synthetic Gecko Foot-Hair Micro/Nano-Structures as Dry Adhesives,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 17, no.8, pp. 1055-1074, 2003.

2004

  1. I. Boblan, and R. Bannasch, ``Surface profile and friction force generated by insects,'' Proc. of the First Int. Industrial Conference Bionik, p. 257-261, Duesseldorf, 2004.
  2. N. J. Glassmaker, A.Jagota, C.-Y.Hui, and J. Kim, ``Design of biomimetic fibrillar interfaces: 1. Making contact'' Jnl. Royal Society London Interface, 7 July 2004.
  3. C.-Y. Hui, N.J.Glassmaker, T.Tang and A. Jagota, ``Design of biomimetic fibrillar interfaces: 2. Mechanics of enhanced adhesion,'' Jnl. Royal Society London Interface, 7 July 2004.
  4. H. Kinoshita, I. Kuma, M. Tagawa, and N. Ohmae, ``High friction of a vertically aligned carbon-nanotube film in microtribology,'' Applied Physics Letters, vol. 85, no. 14, pp. 2780-2781, 4 Oct. 2004.
  5. C. Majidi, R. Groff, and R. Fearing, ``Clumping and Packing of Nanohairs Manufactured by Nanocasting'' 2004 ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. IMECE2004-62142, Anaheim, CA Nov. 13-19, 2004.
  6. C. Menon, M. Murphy, and M. Sitti, ``Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots,'' IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenyang, China, Aug 2004.
  7. A. Peressadko and S.N. Gorb, ``When less is more: experimental evidence for tenacity enhancement by division of contact area,'' The Journal of Adhesion, vol. 80, pp. 247-261, 2004.
  8. Sato, H.; Houshi, Y.; and Shoji, S. ``Three-dimensional micro-structures consisting of high aspect ratio inclined micro-pillars fabricated by simple photolithography,'' Microsyst. Technol. 10(6-7):440-443, 2004.
  9. G. Shah, M. Sitti, "Modeling and Design of Biomimetic Adhesives Inspired by Gecko Foot-Hairs" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenyang, China, Aug 2004.
  10. T. Tong, Y. Zhao, L. Delzeit, A. Kashani, and A. Majumdar, ``Multiwalled carbon nanotube/nanofiber arrays as conductive and dry adhesive interface materials,'' Proc. of ASME Nano2004, Nano2004-46013, Sept. 22-24, 2004, Pasadena, CA.

2005

  1. E. Cheung, M.E. Karagozler, S. Park, B. Kim, and M. Sitti, ``A New Endoscopic Microcapsule Robot using Beetle Inspired Microfibrillar Adhesives,'' Proc. 2005 IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 551-5557, Monterey, CA 24-28 July 2005.
  2. A.J. Crosby, M. Hageman, and A Duncan,, Controlling Polymer Adhesion with ``Pancakes'' Langmuir, vol. 21, pp. 11738-11743, 2005.
  3. J.Y. Chung and M. K. Chaudhury, ``Roles of discontinuities in bio-inspired adhesive pads,'' Jnl. Royal Society Interface, vol. 2, pp. 55-61, 2005.
  4. Daltorio K.A., Gorb S., Peressadko A., Horchler A.D., Ritzmann R.E. and Quinn R.D. (2005) " A Robot that Climbs Walls using Micro-structured Polymer Feet," International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR), London, U.K., Sept. 13-15, 2005.
  5. P.L. Dickrell, S.B. Sinnott, D.W. Hahn, N.R. Raravikar, L.S. Schadler, P.M. Ajayan, and W.G. Sawyer, ``Frictional anisotropy of oriented carbon nanotube surfaces,'' Tribology Letters, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 59-62, Jan. 2005.
  6. H. Gao, Wang X, Yao H, Gorb S and Arzt E ``Mechanics of hierarchical adhesion structures of geckos,'' Mechanics of Materials, vol. 37, pp. 275-285, 2005.
  7. W.R. Hansen and K. Autumn, ``Evidence of self-cleaning in gecko setae,'' Proc. National Academy of Science, vol. 102, no.2, pp. 385-389, January 11, 2005.
  8. G. Huber, S.N. Gorb, R. Spolenak, and E. Arzt, ``Resolving the nanoscale adhesion of individual gecko spatulae by atomic force microscopy,'' Biology Letters, 22 March 2005 vol. 1 no. 1 pp. 2-4. doi:10.1098/rsbl:2004.0254
  9. G. Huber, H. Mantz, R. Spolenak, K. Mecke, K. Jacobs, S.N. Gorb, and E. Arzt, ``Evidence for capillarity contributions to gecko adhesion from single spatula nanomechanical measurements,'' Proc. National Academy of Sciences, vol. 102, no. 45, pp. 16293-16296, 2005.
  10. M. Jin, X. Feng, L. Feng, T. Sun, J. Zhai, T. Li, L. Jiang, ``Superhydrophobic Aligned Polystyrene Nanotube Films with High Adhesive Force,'' Advanced Materials, pp. 1977-1981, vol. 17, 2005.
  11. G. La Spina, C. Stefanini, A. Menciassi, and P. Dario, ``A novel technological process for fabricating micro-tips for biomimetic adhesion,'' Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 15, pp 1576-1587, 2005.
  12. C. S. Majidi, R.E. Groff, and R.S. Fearing, ``Attachment of Fiber Array Adhesive through Side Contact,'' Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 98, 103521 (2005).
  13. M.T. Northen and K.L. Turner, ``A batch fabricated biomimetic dry adhesive,'' Nanotechnology, vol. 16, pp. 1159-1166, 2005.
  14. R. Spolenak, S. Gorb, and E. Arzt, ``Adhesion design maps for bio-inspired attachment systems,'' Acta Biomateriala, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5-13, 2005, doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2004.08.004.
  15. R. Spolenak, S. Gorb, H. Gao, E. Artz, ``Effects of contact shape on the scaling of biological attachments,'' Proc. R. Soc. A (2005) 461, 305319 doi:10.1098/rspa.2004.1326.
  16. W. Sun, P. Neuzil, T. S. Kustandi, S. Oh, and V.D. Samper, ``The nature of the gecko lizard adhesive force,'' Biophysical Journal: Biophysical Letters,'' L14-L17, 2005.
  17. T. Tang, C-Y. Hui, and N.J. Glassmaker, ``Can a fibrillar interface be stronger and tougher than a non-fibrillar one?'' Jnl. Royal Society Interface, vol. 2, pp. 505-516, 2005.
  18. T. Tong, C. Majidi, Y. Zhao, L. Delzeit, R.E. Groff, P. Reddy, A. Majumdar, A. Kashani, and M. Meyyappan, ``Compressive properties of dense vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays,'' Proc. of NANO2005, ASME Integrated Nanosystems: Design, Synthesis and Applications, Sept. 14-16, 2005 Berkeley CA.
  19. Wang. Mei, Wang, Lin ``Interaction and Simulation Analysis between the Biomimetic Gecko'' Adhesion Array and Rough Surface IEEE Int Conf Mechatronics and Automation Jul 2005
  20. B. Yurdumakan, N.R. Raravikar, P.M. Ajayan, and A. Dhinojwala, ``Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes,'' Chemical Communications, vol. 2005, pp. 3799-3801.

2006

  1. K. Autumn and W. Hansen, ``Ultrahydrophobicity indicates a non-adhesive default state in gecko setae,'' J. Comp. Physiol. A, vol. 192, pp. 1205-1212, 2006.
  2. K. Autumn, A. Dittmore, D. Santos, M. Spenko, and M. Cutkosky, ``Frictional Adhesion: a new angle on gecko attachment,'' Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 209, pp. 3569-3579, 2006
  3. K. Autumn, C. Majidi, R.E. Groff, A. Dittmore, and R. Fearing, ``Effective elastic modulus of isolated gecko setal arrays,'' Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 209, pp. 3558-3568, 2006.
  4. J. Berengueres, K. Takahashi, S. Saito, and K. Tadakuma, ``Magnetic Hair for Wall Mobility,'' IEEE/RSJ Int.Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3934-3939, Oct 9-15, 2006, Beijing, China.
  5. J. Berengueres, M. Urago, S. Saito, K. Tadakuma, H. Meguro, ``Gecko inspired electro-static chuck,'' Robio 2006, Kunming China, Dec. 17-20, 2006.
  6. B. Bhushan, A.G. Peressadko, T.-W. Kim, `` Adhesion analysis of two-level hierarchical morphology in natural attachment systems for 'smart adhesion' '', Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 20, Number 13, 2006, pp. 1475-1491
  7. P. Choi, J.Kim, L.J. Guo, ``Fabrication of synthetic gecko tape and characterization of adhesion forces,'' 50th Int. Conf. on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Baltimore, May 30-June 2, 2006.
  8. Z. Dai, M. Yu, and S. Gorb, ``Adhesion Characteristics of Polyurethane for Bionic Hairy Foot,'' Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, published on May 17, 2006
  9. K. Gjerde, J. Kjelstrup-Hansen, C.H. Clausen, K.B.K. Teo, W.I. Millne, H-G. Rubahn, and P. Boggild, ``Carbon nanotube forests: a non-stick workbench for nanomanipulation,'' Nanotechnology, pp. 4917-4922, 2006.
  10. S. Gorb, M. Varenberg, A. Peressadko, and J. Tuma, ``Biomimetic mushroom-shaped fibrillar adhesive microstructure,'' Journal of The Royal Society Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif.2006.0164, 2006.
  11. C-Y. Hui, L. Shen, A. Jagota, K. Autumn, ``Mechanics of anti-fouling or self-cleaning in Geckos,'' Proceedings of the Annual Adhesion Society Meeting (2006).
  12. H. E. Jeong, S. H. Lee, P. Kim, and K. Y. Suh, "Stretched Polymer Nanohairs by Nanodrawing," Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1508-1513, 2006.
  13. D.S. Kim, H.S. Lee, J. Lee, S. Kim, K-H. Lee, W. Moon, and T.H. Kwon, ``Replication of high-aspect-ratio nanopillar array for biomimetic gecko foot-hair prototype by UV nano embossing with anodoc aluminum oxide mold,'' Microsystem Technology, DOI 10.1007/s00542-006-0220-1, 2006.
  14. S. Kim and M. Sitti, ``Biologically inspired polymer microfibers with spatulate tips as repeatable fibrillar adhesives,'' Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, no. 261911, 2006.
  15. J. Kwon, E. Cheung, S. Park, and M. Sitti, "Friction Enhancement via Micro-Patterned Wet Elastomer Adhesives on Small Intestinal Surfaces," Biomedical Materials, vol. 1, pp. 216-220, 2006.
  16. C. Majidi, R.E. Groff, K. Autumn, S. Baek, B.Bush, N. Gravish, R. Maboudian, Y. Maeno, B. Schubert, M. Wilkinson, and R.S. Fearing, ``High friction from a stiff polymer using micro-fiber arrays,'' Physical Review Letters , vol. 97, no. 076103, 18 August 2006.
  17. Niederegger, S., and Gorb, S. N. ``Friction and adhesion in the tarsal and metatarsal scopulae of spiders,'' J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural. Behav. Physiol. 192(11):1223-1232, 2006. 1
  18. M.T. Northen and K.L. Turner, ``Batch fabrication and characterization of nanostructures for enhanced adhesion,'' Current Applied Physics, vol. 6, pp. 379-383, 2006.
  19. M.T. Northen and K.L. Turner, ``Meso-scale adhesion testing of integrated micro- and nano-scale structures,'' Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 130-131, pp. 583-587, 2006.
  20. M. T. Northen, K.L. Turner, C. Greiner and E. Arzt, ``A hierarchical gecko-inspired switchable adhesive,'' Hilton Head, 2006.
  21. Peattie, A. M.; Majidi, C.; Corder, A. B.; and Full, R. J. ``Similar Elastic Modulus of Setal Keratin for Two Species of Gecko'' (abstract). Integr. Comp. Biol. 46(s1):e109, 2006.
  22. N. Ren, X. Wang, T. Mei, and H. Wang, ``Detachment Control Analysis for Nanofabricated Adhesive Mimicking Gecko Foot-Hairs,'' IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, 25-28 June 2006, pp. 267-271.
  23. N.W. Rizzo, K.H. Garner, D.J. Walls, N.M. Keiper-Hrynko, T.S. Ganzke, and D.L. Hallahan, ``Characterization of the structure and composition of gecko adhesive setae,'' J. Royal Soc. Interface, vol. 3, pp. 441-451, 2006.
  24. Schargott, M.; Popov, V. L.; and Gorb, S. ``Spring Model of Biological Attachment Pads'' J. Theor. Biol. 243(1):4853, 2006.
  25. J. Shan, T. Mei, L. Ni, S. Chen, and J. Chu, ``Fabrication and adhesive force analysis of biomimetic gecko foot-hair array,'' Proc. of the 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular systems, Zhuhai, China, Jan. 18-21, 2006, pp. 1546-1549.
  26. K. Takahashi, J.O.L. Berengueres, K. J. Obata, and S. Saito, ``Gecko's foot hair structure and their ability to hang from rough surfaces and move quickly,'' Int. Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, vol. 26, pp. 639-643, 2006.
  27. Y. Tian, N. Pesika, H. Zeng, K. Rosenberg, B. Zhao, P. McGuiggan, K. Autumn, and J. Israelachvili, ``Adhesion and friction in gecko toe attachment and detachment,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, vol. 103, no. 51, Dec. 19, 2006.
  28. Y.-C. Tsai, W.-P. Shih, Y.-M. Wang, L.-S. Huang, and P.-J. Shih, ``E-Beam photoresist and carbon nanotubes as biomimetic dry adhesives,'' MEMS 2006, pp. 926-929, Istanbul Turkey 22-26, Jan. 2006.
  29. Y.-C. Tsai, P.-J. Shih, T.-H. Lin, and W.-P. Shih, ``Self-cleaning efects of biomimetic dry adhesives,'' Proc. 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, pp. 1388-1391, Zhuhai, China 18-21 Jan. 2006.
  30. M. Varenberg, A. Peressadko, S. Gorb, and E. Arzt, ``Effect of real contact geometry on adhesion,'' Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 89, 121905 (2006)
  31. H. Yao and H. Gao, ``Mechanics of robust and releasable adhesion in biology: bottom up designed hierarchical structures of gecko,'' Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 54, pp. 1120-1146, 2006.
  32. E-S. Yoon, R.A. Singh, H. Kong, B. Kim, D-H. Kim, H.E. Jong, and K.Y. Suh, ``Tribological properties of bio-mimetic nano-patterned polymeric surfaces on silicon wafer,'' Tribology Letters pp. 31-37, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan. 2006.
  33. Y. Zhao, T. Tong, L. Dezeit, A. Kashani, M. Meyyapan, and A. Majumdar, ``Interfacial energy and strength of multiwalled-carbon-nanotube-based dry adhesive,'' Journal of Vacuum Science B, pp. 331-335, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2006.

2007

  1. B. Aksak, M. P. Murphy, and M. Sitti, ``Adhesion of Biologically Inspired Vertical and Angled Polymer Microfiber Arrays,'' Web Release Date: 07-Feb-2007 Langmuir, ASAP Article 10.1021/la062697t S0743-7463(06)02697-7 Link
  2. B. Aksak, M. Sitti, A. Casell, J. Li, M. Meyyappan, and P. Callen, ``Friction of partially embedded vertically aligned carbon nanofibers inside elastomers,'' Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 061906, 2007.
  3. Autumn, K., N. Gravish, M. Wilkinson, D. Santos, M. Spenko, and M. Cutkosky. ``Frictional adhesion of natural and synthetic gecko setal arrays,'' Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting of the Adhesion Society:58-60. 2007.
  4. K. Autumn, ``Gecko adhesion: structure, function, and applications,'' MRS Bulletin, vol. 32, pp. 473-478, June 2007.
  5. K. Autumn and N. Gravish, ``Gecko adhesion: evolutionary nanotechnology,'' Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2173
  6. J. Berengueres, S. Saito and K. Tadakuma, ``Structural properties of a scaled gecko foot-hair,'' Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, p. 1-8, vol. 2, 2007.
  7. B. Bhushan and R. A. Sayer, ``Surface characterization and friction of a bio-inspired reversible adhesive tape,'' Microsystem Technologies, pp. 71-78, Vol. 13, no. 1, January, 2007.
  8. B. Bhushan R. Sayer, ``Gecko Feet: Natural Attachment Systems for Smart Adhesion,'' Applied Scanning Probe Methods Vol. VII - Biomimetics and Industrial Applications, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007, pp. 41-76.
  9. B. Bhushan, ``Adhesion of multi-level hierarchical attachment systems in gecko feet,'' J. Adhesion Sci. Technol., Vol. 21, No. 12-13, pp. 1213-1258 (2007).
  10. E.P. Chan, C. Greiner, E. Arzt, and A.J. Crosby, ``Designing model systems for enhanced adhesion,'' MRS Bulletin, vol. 32, pp. 496-503, June 2007.
  11. S. Chen and A. K. Soh, ``Tuning the geometrical parameters of biomimetic fibrillar structures to enhance adhesion,'' Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1121.
  12. A. del Campo and E. Arzt, ``Design parameters and current fabrication approaches for developing bioinspired dry adhesives,'' Macromolecular Bioscience, vol. 7, pp. 118-127, 2007.
  13. A. del Campo, C. Greiner, and E. Arzt, ``Contact shape controls adhesion of bioinspired fibrillar surfaces,'' Langmuir, ASAP Article 10.1021/la7010502 S0743-7463(70)01050-8 Aug. 28, 2007.
  14. del Campo, A., and Greiner, C. ``SU-8: a photoresist for high-aspect-ratio and 3D submicron lithography.'' J. Micromech. Microeng. 17(6):R81-R95, 2007.
  15. A. del Campo, C. Greiner, I. Alvarez, and E. Arzt, ``Patterned surfaces with pillars with controlled 3D tip geometry mimicking bioattachment devices,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 19, pp. 1973-1977, 2007.
  16. L. Ge, S. Sethi, L. Ci, P.M. Ajayan, and A. Dhinojwala, ``Carbon nanotube-based synthetic gecko tapes,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, June 19, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703505104.
  17. N.J. Glassmaker. A. Jagota, C.Y. Hui, W.L. Noderer, and M.K. Chaudhury, ``Biologically inspired crack trapping for enhanced adhesion,'' Proc. National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 26, pp. 10786-10791, 26 June 2007.
  18. Gorb, S.N.; Varenberg, M. ``Mushroom-shaped geometry of contact elements in biological adhesive systems'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. pp. 1175-1183, 2007. pp. 1175-1183(9)
  19. S.N. Gorb, M. Sinha, A. Peressadko, K.A. Daltorio and R.D. Quinn, ``Insects did it first: a micropatterned adhesive tape for robotic applications,'' Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, S117-S225, 2007.
  20. N. Gravish, M. Wilkinson, and K. Autumn. ``Frictional and elastic energy in gecko adhesive detachment,'' Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2008, vo. 5, pp. 339, DOI:10.1098/rsif.2007.1077
  21. C. Greiner, A.D. Campo, E. Arzt, ``Adhesion of bioinspired micropatterned surfaces: effects of pillar radius, aspect ratio, and preload,'' Langmuir, Vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 3495-502, Mar. 2007.
  22. G.C. Hill, D.R. Soto, S.J. Lue, A.M. Peattie, R.J. Full, and T.W. Kenny, ``Investigating the role of orientation angle on gecko setae adhesion using a dual-axis MEMS force sensor,'' 14th Int. Conf. on Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems, Transducers and Eurosensors 2007, pp. 2263-2266, Lyon France, June 10-14, 2007.
  23. Hui, C-Y.; Jagota, A.; Shen, L.; Rajan, A.; Glassmaker, N.; Tang, T., ``Design of bio-inspired fibrillar interfaces for contact and adhesion theory and experiments,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. pp. 1259-1280, 2007.
  24. G. Huber, S.N. Gorb, N. Hosoda, R. Spolenak, E. Arzt, ``Influence of surface roughness on gecko adhesion,'' Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 3, pp. 607-610, 2007.
  25. S. Kim and M. Sitti, C.Y. Hui, and R. Long, A. Jagota, ``Effect of backing layer thickness on adhesion of single-level elastomer fiber arrays,'' Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 161905, 2007.
  26. S. Kim, B. Aksak, and M. Sitti, ``Enhanced friction of elastomer microfiber adhesives with spatulate tips,'' Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 221913 (2007); DOI:10.1063/1.2820755
  27. T.W. Kim and B. Bhushan, ``Adhesion analysis of multi-level hierarchical attachment system contacting with a rough surface,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-20, 2007.
  28. T.W. Kim and and B. Bhushan, "Effect of Stiffness of Multi-Level Hierarchical Attachment System on Adhesion Enhancement," Ultramicroscopy doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2006.11.008, 2007.
  29. T.W. Kim and B. Bhushan, ``The adhesion model considering capillarity for gecko attachment system ,'' Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif.2007.1078.
  30. T.W. Kim, and B. Bhushan, ``Optimization of Biomimetic Attachment System Contacting with a Rough Surface,'' Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, pp. 1003-1012, 2 July 2007.
  31. T.S. Kustandi, V.D. Samper, D.K. Yi, W.S. Ng, P. Neuzil, P. and W. Sun, ``Self-assembled nanoparticles based fabrication of gecko foot-hair-inspired polymer nanofibers,'' Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 17, pp. 2211-2218, August 2007.
  32. T. S. Kustandi, V. D. Samper, W. S. Ng, A. S. Chong and H. Gao, ``Fabrication of a gecko-like hierarchical fibril array using a bonded porous alumina template,'' J. Micromech. Microeng. vol. 17 pp. N75-N81, 2007.
  33. Lamblet, M.; Verneuil, E.; Vilmin, T.; Buguin, A.; Silberzan, P.; and Leger, L. ``Adhesion Enhancement through Micropatterning at Polydimethylsiloxane-Acrylic Adhesive Interfaces,'' Langmuir 23(13):6966-6974, 2007. 6974.
  34. C. Majidi, ``Remarks on formulating an adhesion problem using Eulers elastica,'' Mechanics Research Communications, vol. 34, pp. 85-90, 2007.
  35. C. Majidi, R.E. Groff, and R.S. Fearing, ``Analysis for Shaft-loaded Membrane Delamination using Stationary Principles'' Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, January 2007, 1081286506068823.
  36. Murphy, M. P.; Aksak, B.; Sitti, Metin ``Adhesion and anisotropic friction enhancements of angled heterogeneous micro-fiber arrays with spherical and spatula tips,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. pp. 1281-1296, 2007.
  37. W.L. Noderer, L. Shen, S. Vajpayee, N.J. Glassmaker, A. Jagota, and C.-Y. Hui, ``Enhanced adhesion and compliance of film-terminated fibrillar surfaces,'' Proc. Royal Soc. A, vol. 463, pp. 2631-2654, 2007.
  38. A.M. Peattie and R.J. Full, ``Phylogenetic analysis of the scaling of wet and dry biological fibrillar adhesives,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, vol. 104, no. 47, pp. 18595-18600, Nov. 20, 2007.
  39. A. M. Peattie, C. Majidi, A. Corder, R. J. Full ``Ancestrally high elastic modulus of gecko setal beta-keratin,'' J. Royal Society Interface, Volume 4, Number 17 / December 22, 2007.
  40. B.N.J. Persson, ``Biological adhesion for locomotion: basic principles'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. pp. 1145-1173, 2007.
  41. N. Pesika, Y. Tian, B. Zhao, K. Rosenberg, H. Zeng, P. McGuiggan, K. Autumn, and J. Israelachvili. 2007. Geometry-based model of tape peeling applied to the gecko adhesive system. Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting of the Adhesion Society:99-101.
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  46. D. Santos, S. Kim, M. Spenko, A. Parness, and M. Cutkosky, ``Directional adhesive structures for controlled climbing on smooth vertical surfaces,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1262-1267, Rome Italy 10-14 April 2007.
  47. Santos, D.; Spenko, M.; Parness, A.; Kim, S.; Cutkosky, M. ``Directional adhesion for climbing: theoretical and practical considerations'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. pp. 1317-1341, 2007.
  48. B. Schubert, C. Majidi, R. E. Groff, S. Baek, B. Bush, R. Maboudian, R.S. Fearing, ``Towards friction and adhesion from high modulus microfiber arrays,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 21(12-13), pp. 1297-1315 (2007).
  49. M. Varenberg and S. Gorb, ``Shearing of fibrillar adhesive microstructure: friction and shear-related changes in pull-off force,'' Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 4, pp. 721-725, 2007.
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2008

  1. B. Aksak, M.P. Murphy, and M. Sitti, ``Gecko inspired micro-fibrillar adhesives for wall climbing robots on micro/nanoscale rough surfaces,'' 2008 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2008, pp. 3058-3063.
  2. B. Bhushan, B. Galasso, C Bignardi, C.V. Nguyen, L. Dai, and Liangti Qu, ``Adhesion, friction and wear on the nanoscale of MWNT tips and SWNT and MWNT arrays,'' Nanotechnology, vol. 19, no. 125702, 21 February 2008.
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  4. B. Chen, P.D. Wu, H. Gao, ``Pre-tension generates strongly reversible adhesion of a spatula pad on a substrate,'' J.R. Soc. Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0322
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  10. C. Greiner, R. Spolenak, and E. Arzt, ``Adhesion design maps for fibrillar adhesives: The effect of shape,'' Acta Biomaterialia, 25 Sep. 2008. doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2008.09.006
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  13. H.E. Jeong, S.H. Lee, P. Kim, and K.Y. Suh, ``High aspect-ratio polymer nanostructures by tailored capillarity and adhesive force,'' Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects Volumes 313-314, 1 February 2008, Pages 359-364.
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  15. S. Kim, T.S. Kustandi, D.K. Yi, ``Synthesis of Artificial Polymeric Nanopillars for Clean and Reusable Adhesives,'' Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 4779-4782(4) September 2008.
  16. S. Kim, M. Sitti, J-H. Jang, and E.L. Thomas, `` Fabrication of Bio-Inspired Elastomer Nanofiber Arrays with Spatulate Tips using Notching Effect,'' IEEE Nano 2008, pp. 780-782, 18-21 Aug. 2008.
  17. J. Lee, C. Majidi, B. Schubert, R.S. Fearing, ``Sliding induced adhesion of stiff polymer microfiber arrays: 1. Macroscale behaviour,'' Journal Royal Society, Interface, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 835-844, DOI 10.1098/rsif.2007.1308
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  21. Pei-Chun Lin, Shilpi Vajpayee, Anand Jagota, Chung-Yuen Hui and Shu Yang, ``Mechanically tunable dry adhesive from wrinkled elastomers,'' Soft Matter, 2008, vol. 4, pp. 1830 - 1835, DOI: 10.1039/b802848f.
  22. R. Long, C.-Y. Hui, S. Kim, and M. Sitti, ``Modeling the soft backing layer thickness effect on adhesion of elastic microfiber arrays,'' J. Appl. Phys. 104, 044301 (2008); DOI:10.1063/1.2968249
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  24. A. Mahdavi, L. Ferreira L. Feirrara, C. Sundback, J. W. Nichol, E.P. Chan, D.J.D. Carter, C. J. Bettinger, S. Patanavanich, L. Chignozha, E. Ben-Joseph, A. Galakatos, H. Pryor , I. Pomerantseva, P.T. Masiakos, W. Faquin, A. Zumbuehl, S. Hong, J. Borenstein, J. Vacanti, R. Langer, and J. M. Karp, ``A biodegradable and biocompatible gecko-inspired tissue adhesive,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, vol. 105, no. 7, pp. 2307-2312, Feb. 19, 2008.
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  27. R.M. McMeeking, E. Arzt, and A.G. Evans, ``Defect Dependent Adhesion of Fibrillar Surfaces,'' The Journal of Adhesion, 84:675.681, 2008.
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  33. D. Sameoto, Y. Li, and C. Menon, ``Multi-Scale Compliant Foot Designs and Fabrication for Use with a Spider-Inspired Climbing Robot,'' Journal of Bionic Engineering, vol. 5, pp.189-196, doi:10.1016/S1672-6529(08)60024-4
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  40. D. Soto, A. Parness, N. Esparza, T. Kenny, K. Autumn and M.R. Cutkosky, ``Microfabricated Dry Adhesive Displaying Frictional Adhesion,'' Hilton Head MEMS conference, June 1-5, 2008.
  41. A.V. Spuskanyuka, R.M. McMeeking, V.S. Deshpande, and E. Arzt, ``The effect of shape on the adhesion of fibrillar surfaces,'' Acta Biomaterialia, Volume 4, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 1669-1676.
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2009

  1. A. Asbeck, S. Dastoor, A. Parness, L. Fullerton, N. Esparza, D. Soto, B. Heyneman, M. Cutkosky, ``Climbing rough vertical surfaces with hierarchical directional adhesion,'' IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Kobe Japan May 2009.
  2. B. Bhushan, ``Biomimetics: lessons from nature: an overview,'' Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A. vol. 367, pp. 1445-1486, 2009. doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0011
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  5. S. Chen, G. Xu and A. Soh, ``Size dependent adhesion strength of a single viscolelastic fiber,'' Tribology Letters, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 375-379, Feb. 2010.
  6. E. Cheung and M. Sitti, ``Adhesion of Biologically Inspired Polymer Microfibers on Soft Surfaces,'' Langmuir vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 6613-6616, 2009. 10.1021/la900997p
  7. E.J. De Souza, M. Kamperman, G. Castellanos, E. Kroner, V. Armbruester, M.S. Romann, B. Schick and E. Arzt, ``In vitro adhesion measurements between skin and micropatterned poly(dimethylsiloxane) surfaces,'' IEEE EMBS Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 2-6, 2009.
  8. P. Glass, H. Chung, N.R. Washburn, and M. Sitti, ``Enhanced Reversible Adhesion of Dopamine Methacrylamide-Coated Elastomer Microfibrillar Structures under Wet Conditions,'' Langmuir, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 6607-6612, 2009. 10.1021/la9009114
  9. N. Gravish, M. Wilkinson, S. Sponberg, A. Parness, N. Esparza, D. Soto, T. Yamaguchi, M. Broide, M. Cutkosky, C. Creton and K. Autumn, ``Rate-dependent frictional adhesion in natural and synthetic gecko setae,'' Journal Royal Society, Interface, June 3, 2009. 10.1098/rsif.2009.0133
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  11. C. Greiner, S. Buhl, A. del Campoa, and E. Arzta, ``Experimental Parameters Controlling Adhesion of Biomimetic Fibrillar Surfaces,'' The Journal of Adhesion, Volume 85, Issue 9 September 2009 , pages 646 - 661 DOI: 10.1080/00218460902997042
  12. H.E. Jeong and K.Y. Suh, ``Nanotubes and Nanohairs: efficient structural elements for gecko-inspired artificial dry adhesives,'' Nano Today, doi:10.1016/j.nantod.2009.06.004 vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 335-346, Aug. 2009.
  13. H.E. Jeong, J.-K. Lee, H.N. Kim, S.H. Moon, and K.Y. Suh, ``A non transferring dry adhesive with hierarchical polymer nanohairs,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. Mar. 20, 2009 doi:10.1073/pnas.0900323106.
  14. S. Kim, E. Cheung, and M. Sitti, ``Wet Self-Cleaning of Biologically Inspired Elastomer Mushroom Shaped Microfibrillar Adhesives,'' Langmuir, vol. 25, no. 13, pp. 7196-7199, 2009. doi:10.1021/la900732h
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  18. H. Ko, J. Lee, B.E. Schubert, Y.-L. Chueh, P.W. Leu, R.S. Fearing, and A. Javey, ``Hybrid CoreShell Nanowire Forests as Self-Selective Chemical Connectors,'' Nano Lett., April 24, 2009, DOI: 10.1021/nl900343b
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  21. Y. Li, D. Sameoto, and C. Menon, ``Properties Validation of an Anisotropic Dry Adhesion Designed for Legged Climbing Robots,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 1906-1911, December 19 -23, 2009, Guilin, China.
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  41. L. Shen, A. Jagota, and C-Y. Hui, "Mechanism of Sliding Friction on a Film-Terminated Fibrillar Interface," Langmuir, vol. 25, pp. 2772-2780, 2009.
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  43. M. Sitti, B. Cusick, B. Aksak, A. Nese, H. Lee, H. Dong, T. Kowalewski, and K. Matyjaszewski, ``Dangling Chain Elastomers as Repeatable Fibrillar Adhesives,'' ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/am9004368 September 23, 2009.
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  47. H. Zeng, N. Pesika, Y. Tian, B. Zhao, Y. Chen, M. Tirrell, K. L. Turner and J.N. Israelachvili, ``Frictional Adhesion of Patterned Surfaces and Implications for Gecko and Biomimetic Systems,'' Langmuir vol. 25, no. 13, pp. 7486-7495, 2009.

2010

  1. L. F. Boesel, C. Greiner, E. Arzt, A. del Campo, ``Gecko-Inspired Surfaces: A Path to Strong and Reversible Dry Adhesives,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 22, pp 1-13, 26 Mar. 2010.
  2. B. Chen and H. Gao, ``An alternative explanation of the effect of humidity in gecko adhesion: stiffness reduction enhances adhesion on a rough surface,'' Int. Jnl. of Applied Mechanics, vol. 2, pp. 1-9, 2010
  3. P. Day, M. Cutkosky, R. Greco, and A. Mclaughlin, ``The effect of He2+ Ion Irradiation on Adhesion of Polymer Micro-structure Based Dry Adhesives'' ANS Journal of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Accepted, September 2010.
  4. J.P. Diaz Tellez, D. Sameoto, and C. Menon, Cleaning properties of dry adhesives,'' Science China Technological Sciences, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 2942-2946, doi:10.1007/s11431-010-4125-y.
  5. L. Ge, L. Ci, A. Goyal, R. Shi, L. Mahadevan, P.M. Ajayan, and A. Dhinojwala, ``Cooperative Adhesion and Friction of Compliant Nanohairs,'' Nanoletters doi:10.1021/nl102398w, Oct. 12, 2010.
  6. Shihao Hu, Haodan Jiang, Zhenhai Xia*, and Xiaosheng Gao, ``Friction and Adhesion of Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Structures for Biomimetic Dry Adhesives: Multiscale Modeling,'' ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2010, 2 (9), pp 2570.2578 DOI: 10.1021/am100409s
  7. Yeau-Ren Jeng and Chien-Ping Mao, ``The effect of contaminants on the adhesion of the spatulae of a gecko'' Journal of Biosciences Volume 35, Number 4, 595-603, DOI: 10.1007/s12038-010-0068-5
  8. H.E. Jeong, J-K. Lee, M.Y. Kwak, S.H. Moon, and K. Y. Suh, ``Effect of leaning angle of gecko-inspired slanted polymer nanohairs on dry adhesion,'' Applied Physics Letters, vol. 96, no. 043704, 2010.
  9. Hoon Eui Jeong, Moon Kyu Kwak. and Kahp Y. Suh, ``Stretchable, Adhesion-Tunable Dry Adhesive by Surface Wrinkling,'' Langmuir, 2010, 26 (4), pp 2223.2226 DOI: 10.1021/la904290g
  10. M. Kamperman, E. Kroner, A. del Campo, R.M. McMeeking, and E. Arzt, ``Functional adhesive surfaces with `gecko' effect: the concept of contact splitting,'' Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 335-348, 2010. dio: 10.1002/adem.201000104.
  11. J Krahn, D Sameoto and C Menon, ``Controllable biomimetic adhesion using embedded phase change material,'' Smart Mater. Struct. v. 20, 2011 doi:10.1088/0964-1726/20/1/015014.
  12. R.K. Kramer, C. Majidi, R.J. Wood, ``Shear-Mode Contact Splitting for a Microtextured Elastomer Film,'' Advanced Materials, 2010, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201000897.
  13. E. Kroner, R. Maboudian, and E. Arzt, ``Adhesion characteristics of PDMS surfaces during repeated pull-off force measurements,'' Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 398-404, 2010.
  14. A. Kumar and C-Y. Hui, ``Numerical study of shearing of a microfibre during friction testing of a microfibre array,'' Proc. R. Soc. A (2011) 467, 1372.1389 doi:10.1098/rspa.2010.0449 24 November 2010.
  15. Moon Kyu Kwak, Hoon-Eui Jeong, Tae-il Kim, Hyunsik Yoon, and Kahp Y. Suh, ``Bio-inspired slanted polymer nanohairs for anisotropic wetting and directional dry adhesion,'' Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 1849-1857 DOI: 10.1039/b924056j
  16. S. Kwak and T-W. Kim, ``A review of adhesion and friction models for gecko feet,'' Int. Jnl. of Pecision Engineering and Manufacturing, vol. 11, no.1, pp. 171-186, Feb. 2010.
  17. Y. Li, D. Sameoto, C. Menon (2010) Enhanced compliant adhesive design and fabrication with dual-level hierarchical structure, Journal Bionic Engineering, Vol.7, No.3, pp 228-234.
  18. Ming Li, Aiwu Zhao, Rui Jiang, Dapeng Wang, Da Li, Hongyan Guo, Wenyu Tao, Zibao Gan and Maofeng Zhang, ``Regulation of the elastic modulus of polyurethane microarrays and its influence on gecko-inspired dry adhesion,'' Applied Surface Science 2010, doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.11.017
  19. Y. Maeno, A. Ishikawa, and Y. Nakayama, ``Adhesive behavior of single carbon nanotubes,'' Applied Physics Express, vol. 3, 065102, May 2010.
  20. M-W. Moon, T-G. Cha, K-R. Lee, A. Vaziri, H-Y. Kim, ``Tilted Janus polymer pillars ,'' Soft Matter, 25 June 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00126k
  21. N. Nadermann, A. Kumar, S. Goyal and C.-Y. Hui, ``Buckling of sheared and compressed microfibrils,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 November 2010 vol. 7 no. 52 pp. 1581-1589. doi: 10.1098/.rsif.2010.0147
  22. Z.L. Peng, S.H. Chen, and A.K. Soh, ``Peeling behavior of a bio-inspired nano-film on a substrate,'' Int. Jnl. of Solids and Structures, doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2010.03.035.
  23. Jonathan B. Puthoff, Michael S. Prowse, Matt Wilkinson and Kellar Autumn, ``Changes in materials properties explain the effects of humidity on gecko adhesion,'' The Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 3699-3704 doi:10.1242/jeb.047654
  24. Safdari, Masoud; Baniassadi, Majid; Asiaei, Sasan; Garmestani, Hamid; Ahzi, Said, ``Modeling of Biologically Inspired Adhesive Pads Using Monte Carlo Analysis ,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 24, Number 7, 2010 , pp. 1207-1220(14).
  25. D. Sameoto and C Menon, ``Recent advances in the fabrication and adhesion testing of biomimetic dry adhesives,'' Smart Mater. Struct. 19 (2010) 103001 doi:10.1088/0964-1726/19/10/103001.
  26. D. Sameoto and C. Menon, ``Deep UV Patterning of Acrylic Masters for Molding Biomimetic Dry Adhesives,'' Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol.20, No.11, 115037 2010.
  27. R.A. Sauer, "A computational model for nanoscale adhesion between deformable solids and its application to gecko adhesion", J. Adhes. Sci. Technol. 24, pp. 1807-1818, 2010
  28. E. So, M.C. Demirel, and K.J. Wahl, ``Mechanical anisotropy of nanostructured parylene films during sliding contact,'' J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43 045403, Jan. 2010. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/43/4/045403
  29. D. Soto, G. Hill, A. Parness, N. Esparza, M. Cutkosky, and T. Kenny, ``Effect of fibril shape on adhesive properties,'' Applied Physics Letters, vol. 97, no. 053701, 2010.
  30. R. Spohr, G. Sharma, P. Forsberg, M. Karlsson, A. Hallen and L. Westerberg, ``Stroke Asymmetry of Tilted Superhydrophobic Ion Track Textures,'' Langmuir Jan. 19, 2010, DOI:10.1021/la904137t.
  31. O. Unver and M. Sitti, ``Flat Dry Elastomer Adhesives as Attachment Materials for Climbing Robots,'' IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 131-141, Feb 2010.
  32. S. Vajpayee, A. Jagota and C.-Y. Hui, ``Adhesion of a Fibrillar Interface on Wet and Rough Surfaces ,'' The Journal of Adhesion, Volume 86, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 39 - 61. DOI: 10.1080/00218460903417834
  33. Michael Varenberg, Nicola M. Pugno and Stanislav N. Gorb ``Spatulate structures in biological fibrillar adhesion,'' Soft Matter, 2010, 6, pp. 3269-3272. DOI: 10.1039/C003207G
  34. ZHANG Hao, GUO DongJie & DAI ZhenDong, ``Progress on gecko-inspired micro/nano-adhesion arrays,'' Chinese Science Bulletin vol. 55, no. 18, 1843-1850, June 2010. doi: 10.1007/s11434-010-3065-z


2011

  1. B. Aksak, C. Y. Hui, and M. Sitti, ''Effect of Aspect Ratio on Adhesion for Soft Elastic Fibers,'' Royal Society Journal of Interface, 2011, doi:10.1098/rsif.2010.0582, in press.
  2. Giuseppe Carbone, Elena Pierro and Stanislav N. Gorb, ``Origin of the superior adhesive performance of mushroom-shaped microstructured surfaces,'' Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5545-5552 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01482F
  3. G. Castellanos, E. Arzt, M. Kamperman, ``Effect of Viscoelasticity on Adhesion of Bioinspired Micropatterned Epoxy Surfaces,'' Langmuir 2011, 27 (12), 7752-7759
  4. Q. H. Cheng, B. Chen, H. J. Gao, and Y. W. Zhang ``Sliding-induced non-uniform pre-tension governs robust and reversible adhesion: a revisit of adhesion mechanisms of geckos,'' J. R. Soc. Interface published online before print July 20, 2011, doi:10.1098/rsif.2011.0254
  5. Alexander Filippov, Valentin L. Popov, Stanislav N. Gorb, ``Shear induced adhesion: Contact mechanics of biological spatula-like attachment devices,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology Volume 276, Issue 1, 7 May 2011, Pages 126-131.
  6. Yi-Ming Fu and Pu Zhang, ``Peeling off Carbon Nanotubes from Rigid Substrates: An Exact Model,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 25 (2011) 1061.1072
  7. Andrew G. Gillies and Ronald S. Fearing, ``Shear Adhesion Strength of Thermoplastic Gecko-Inspired Synthetic Adhesive Exceeds Material Limits,'' Langmuir, August 17, 2011, DOI: 10.1021/la202085j.
  8. E.W. Hawkes, J. Ulmen, N. Esparza, and M.R. Cutkosky, ``Scaling walls: applying dry adhesives to the real world,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sept. 25-30, 2011. San Francisco, CA.
  9. L. Heepe, M. Varenberg, Y. Itovich, and S.N. Gorb, ``Suction component in adhesion of mushroom-shaped microstructure,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 April 2011 vol. 8 no. 57 pp. 585-589
  10. Ginel C. Hill, Daniel R. Soto, Anne M. Peattie, Robert J. Full and T. W. Kenny ``Orientation angle and the adhesion of single gecko setae,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 July 2011 vol. 8 no. 60 pp. 926-933. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0720
  11. Audrey Yoke Yee Ho, Lip Pin Yeo, Yee Cheong Lam, and Isabel Rodriguez, ``Fabrication and Analysis of Gecko-Inspired Hierarchical Polymer Nanosetae,'' ACS Nano 2011 5 (3), 1897-1906, DOI: 10.1021/nn103191q
  12. Ping Yuan Hsu, Liehui Ge, Xiaopeng Li, Alyssa Y. Stark, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Peter H. Niewiarowski and Ali Dhinojwala1, ``Direct evidence of phospholipids in gecko footprints and spatula-substrate contact interface detected using surface-sensitive spectroscopy,'' J. R. Soc. Interface, Aug. 24, 2011 doi: 10.1098/.rsif.2011.0370
  13. Anand Jagota, Chung-Yuen Hui, ``Adhesion, friction, and compliance of bio-mimetic and bio-inspired structured interfaces,'' Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports Volume 72, Issue 12, 22 December 2011, Pages 253-292
  14. Aihong Ji, Longbao Han, Zhendong Dai, ``Adhesive Contact in Animal: Morphology, Mechanism and Bio-Inspired Application,'' Journal of Bionic Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 345-356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529(11)60040-1.
  15. J. Krahn, D. Sameoto, and C Menon, ``Controllable biomimetic adhesion using embedded phase change material,'' Smart Mater. Struct. 20 015014 2011.
  16. J Krahn, Y Liu, A Sadeghi and C Menon, ``A tailless timing belt climbing platform utilizing dry adhesives with mushroom caps,'' Smart Mater. Struct. vol. 20 115021 2011. doi:10.1088/0964-1726/20/11/115021
  17. E. Kroner, D. R. Paretkar, R. M. McMeeking, E. Arzt, ``adhesion of Flat and Structured PDMS samples to Spherical and Flat Probes: A Comparative Study,'' The Journal of Adhesion 2011, 87, 447-465
  18. Moon Kyu Kwak , Hoon Eui Jeong , Won Gyu Bae , Ho-Sup Jung , and Kahp Y. Suh, ``Anisotropic Adhesion Properties of Triangular-Tip- Shaped Micropillars,'' Small, Volume 7, Issue 16, 1 JUN 2011, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201100455
  19. Moon Kyu Kwak , Changhyun Pang , Hoon-Eui Jeong , Hong-Nam Kim , Hyunsik Yoon , Ho-Sup Jung , and Kahp-Yang Suh, ``Towards the Next Level of Bioinspired Dry Adhesives: New Designs and Applications,'' Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, 21, 3606-3616, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201100982.
  20. Moon Kyu Kwak, Hoon-Eui Jeong, Kahp Y. Suh, ``Rational Design and Enhanced Biocompatibility of a Dry Adhesive Medical Skin Patch,'' Advanced Materials Vol. 23, no. 34, pp. 3949-3953, September 8, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201101694
  21. Dae Ho Lee, Yongkwan Kim, Ronald S. Fearing, and Roya Maboudian, ``Effect of Fiber Geometry on Macroscale Friction of Ordered Low-Density Polyethylene Nanofiber Arrays,'' Langmuir, July 20, 2011. DOI: 10.1021/la201498u
  22. Y. Li, A. Ahmed, D. Sameoto, and C. Menon, ``Abigaille II: towards the development of a spider-inspired climbing robot,'' Robotica, 2011, doi:10.1017/S0263574711000373
  23. Liu, Shiyuan; Zhang, Peng; Cheng, Xue; Malik, Rizwan; Tang, Zirong, ``Optimal Design of High-Aspect-Ratio Micro/Nano Hierarchical Structures Mimicking Gecko Foot-Hairs ,'' Advanced Science Letters, Volume 4, Numbers 4-5, April-May 2011 , pp. 1546-1551(6)
  24. Michael P. Murphy, Casey Kute, Yigit Menguc and Metin Sitti, ``Waalbot II: Adhesion Recovery and Improved Performance of a Climbing Robot using Fibrillar Adhesives,'' The International Journal of Robotics Research, January 2011 30: pp. 118-133, doi:10.1177/0278364910382862
  25. Boris Murarash, Yan Itovich and Michael Varenberg, ``Tuning elastomer friction by hexagonal surface patterning,'' Soft Matter, 2011, 7, pp. 5553-5557.
  26. Antonio Pantano, Nicola M. Pugno and Stanislav N. Gorb, ``Numerical simulations demonstrate that the double tapering of the spatualae of lizards and insects maximize both detachment resistance and stability,'' International Journal of Fracture Volume 171, Number 2, 169-175, DOI: 10.1007/s10704-011-9596-8
  27. D. Paretkar, A. Schneider, E. Kroner, E. Arzt, ``In situ observation of contact mechanisms in bioinspired adhesives at high magnification,'' MRS Communications 2011, 1, 53-56
  28. D. Paretkar, M. Kamperman, A. S. Schneider, D. Martina, C. Creton, E. Arzt, ``Bioinspired pressure actuated adhesive system'', Materials Science and Engineering: C, Vol. 31, no. 6, 12 August 2011, pp. 1152-1159, 10.1016/j.msec.2010.10.004.
  29. Z. L. Peng and S. H. Chen, ``Effects of surface roughness and film thickness on the adhesion of a bioinspired nanofilm,'' Phys. Rev. E 83, 051915 (2011).
  30. Michael S. Prowse, Matt Wilkinson, Jonathan B. Puthoff, George Mayer and Kellar Autumn, ``Effects of humidity on the mechanical properties of gecko setae,'' Acta Biomaterialia Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2011, Pages 733-738
  31. N. Pugno, E. Lepore, S. Toscano and F. Pugno, ``Normal Adhesive Force-Displacement Curves of Living Geckos,'' The Journal of Adhesion, Volume 87, Issue 11, 2011, DOI: 10.1080/00218464.2011.609439
  32. H. Shahsavan and B. Zhao, ``Conformal adhesion enhancement on biomimetic microstructured surfaces,'' Langmuir vol. 27, pp. 7732-7742, 2011.
  33. J. Tamelier, Chary, S.; Turner, K.; Jing Yu; Das, S.; Israelachvili, J., ``Millimeter size patch behavior of gecko-inspired reversible adhesive,'' Sensors, 2011 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1819-1822, 28-31 Oct. 2011 doi: 10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127159
  34. Y.C. Tsai, M.-D. Wu, W-P. Shih, ``Fabrication and characterization of e-beam photoresist array for biomimetic self-cleaning dry adhesives,'' Microelectronic Engineering, Volume 88, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 2126-2128, doi:10.1016/j.mee.2011.01.049.
  35. Michael Varenberg, Boris Murarash, Yuri Kligerman and Stanislav N. Gorb, ``Geometry-controlled adhesion: revisiting the contact splitting hypothesis,'' Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing Volume 103, Number 4, pp. 933-938, DOI: 10.1007/s00339-011-6394-0, 2011.
  36. Lifeng Wang, Christine Ortiz, and Mary C. Boyce, ``Mechanics of Indentation into Micro- and Nanoscale Forests of Tubes, Rods, or Pillars,'' J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 133, 011014 (2011), DOI:10.1115/1.4002648
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  38. Xiangjun Zhang, Xiaohao Zhang, Shizhu Wen, ``Finite Element Modeling of the Nano-scale Adhesive Contact and the Geometry-based Pull-off Force,'' Tribol Lett (2011) 41:65-72, DOI 10.1007/s11249-010-9686-1
  39. Zhou, M.; Tian, Y.; Pesika, N.; Zeng, H.; Wan, J.; Meng, Y.; and Wen, S. ``The Extended Peel Zone Model: Effect of Peeling Velocity,'' J. Adhes. 87(11):1045-1058, 2011.


2012

  1. Uyiosa Abusomwan and Metin Sitti, ``Effect of retraction speed on adhesion of elastomer fibrillar structures,'' Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 211907 (2012)
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4767360
  2. Won-Gyu Bae, Moon Kyu Kwak, Hoon Eui Jeong, Changhyun Pang, Hakgeun Jeong and Kahp-Yang Suh, ``Fabrication and analysis of enforced dry adhesives with core.shell micropillars,'' Soft Matter , 2013, 9, 1422-1427, link DOI: 10.1039/C2SM27323C
  3. M. D. Bartlett, A. B. Croll, A. J. Crosby, ``Designing Bio-Inspired Adhesives for Shear Loading: From Simple Structures to Complex Patterns,'' Advanced Functional Materials, 23 JUL 2012,
    DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201201344
  4. B. Bhushan, ``Bioinspired Structured Surfaces,'' Langmuir, 2012, 28 (3), pp 1698.1714 link DOI: 10.1021/la2043729
  5. N. Canas, M. Kamperman, B. Voelker, E. Kroner, R. M. McMeeking, E. Arzt, ``Effect of nano- and micro-roughness on adhesion of bioinspired micropatterned surfaces,''; Acta Biomaterialia 2012, 8 (1), 282-288
  6. Bingan Chen, Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, Tamaryn A.V. Shean, C. Tobias Wirth, Stephan Hofmann, and John Robertson, ``Adhesive Properties of Gecko-Inspired Mimetic via Micropatterned Carbon Nanotube Forests,'' The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2012 116 (37), 20047-20053 DOI: 10.1021/jp304650s
  7. Dong-Jie Guo, Hao Zhang, Jia-Bo Li, Shao-Ming Fang, Zhen-Dong Dai and Wei Tan, ``Fabrication and adhesion of a bio-inspired microarray: capillarity-induced casting using porous silicon mold,'' J. Mater. Chem. B , 2013, 1, 379-386. link DOI: 10.1039/C2TB00097K
  8. E. W. Hawkes, E. V. Eason, A.T. Asbeck, and M. R. Cutkosky, ``The Gecko's Toe: Scaling Directional Adhesives for Climbing Applications,'' IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, Sept. 2012.
  9. Heepe, L., Kovalev, A. E., Varenberg, M., Tuma, J. & Gorb, S. N. ``First mushroom-shaped adhesive microstructure: A review,'' (2012). Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2(1), 014008. link
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    DOI: 10.1021/am201796k
  11. Shihao Hu and Zhenhai Xia. ``Rational Design and Nanofabrication of Gecko-Inspired Fibrillar Adhesives,'' Small (Article first published online: 29 MAY 2012)
    DOI: 10.1002/smll.201200413
  12. Shihao Hu, Stephanie Lopez, Peter H. Niewiarowski, and Zhenhai Xia. ``Dynamic self-cleaning in gecko setae via digital hyperextension,'' J. R. Soc. Interface (Published online before print June 13, 2012)
    DOI: 10.1098/.rsif.2012.0108
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    DOI: 10.1039/C2NR33027J
  14. Huang, P.-H., ``Atomistic simulations of shearing friction and dynamic adhesion of double-walled carbon nanotubes on Au substrates,'' Composites Science and Technology volume 72, issue 5, year 2012, pp. 599 - 607.
  15. Hadi Izadi, Boxin Zhao, Yougun Han, Neil McManus, Alexander Penlidis, ``Teflon hierarchical nanopillars with dry and wet adhesive properties,'' Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 5 APR 2012.
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  16. Hoon Eui Jeong and Kahp-Yang Suh, ``Precise tip shape transformation of nanopillars for enhanced dry adhesion strength,'' Soft Matter, 2012, DOI:10.1039/C2SM07440K
  17. Kejia Jin, Yu Tian, Jeffrey S. Erickson, Jonathan Puthoff, Kellar Autumn, and Noshir Pesika ``The Design and Fabrication of Gecko-inspired Adhesives,'' Langmuir Mar. 2012.
  18. Yongkwan Kim, Francesca Limanto, Dae Ho Lee, Ronald S. Fearing, and Roya Maboudian, ``Role of Counter-substrate Surface Energy in Macroscale Friction of Nanofiber Arrays,'' Langmuir, Jan. 20, 2012,
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  21. Krahn, J, and Menon, C, ``Electro-Dry-Adhesion'', Langmuir, Vol.28, No.12, 2012.
  22. E. Kroner, J. Blau, E. Arzt, ``Note: An adhesion measurement setup for bioinspired fibrillar surfaces using flat probes,'' Review of Scientific Instruments 2012, 83 (1), 016101
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  24. Jongho Lee and Ronald S. Fearing, ``Wet Self-Cleaning of Superhydrophobic Microfiber Adhesives Formed from High Density Polyethylene,'' Langmuir, October 16, 2012.
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  25. H. Lee and B. Bhushan, ``Fabrication and characterization of hierarchical nanostructured smart adhesion surfaces,'' Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 372 (2012) pp. 231-238.
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  28. Y. Maeno and Y. Nakayama, ``Experimental Investigation of Adhesive Behavior in Carbon Nanotube Based Gecko Tape,'' The Journal of Adhesion, Volume 88, Issue 3, 2012
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  29. Carmel Majidi, Oliver M. O'Reilly, and John A. Williams, ``On the stability of a rod adhering to a rigid surface: Shear-induced stable adhesion and the instability of peeling,'' Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids Volume 60, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 827-843,
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  31. D. R. Paretkar, M. D. Bartlett , R. McMeeking , A.J. Crosby and E. Arzt (2013) ``Buckling of an Adhesive Polymeric Micropillar,'' The Journal of Adhesion, 89:2, 140-158.
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  32. Zhilong Peng and Shaohua Chen, ``The effect of geometry on the adhesive behavior of bio-inspired fibrils,'' SoftMatter, 2012, vol. 8, pp. 9864, DOI: 10.1039/C2SM26390D
  33. M. Roehrig,M. Thiel, M. Worgull, and H. Hoelscher ``3D Direct Laser Writing of Nano- and Microstructured Hierarchical Gecko-Mimicking Surfaces,'' Small, vol. 8, no. 19, pp. 3009-33015, October 8, 2012 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201200308
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  35. D. Sameoto and B. Ferguson, ``Robust large-area synthetic dry adhesives,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2012.
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  36. D. Sameoto, ``Dry Adhesives for MEMS Assembly, Manipulation and Integration: Progress and Challenges,'' ECS Trans. 2012, Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 515-528.
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  37. D. Sameoto, H. Sharif, J.P. Diaz Tellez, B. Ferguson, C. Menon, ``Nonangled anisotropic elastomeric dry adhesives with tailorable normal adhesion strength and high directionality,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2012,
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  38. D. Sameoto, H. Sharif and C. Menon, ``Investigation of low-pressure adhesion performance of mushroom shaped biomimetic dry adhesives,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2012
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  40. John Tamelier, Sathya Chary, and Kimberly L. Turner, ``Vertical Anisotropic Microfibers for a Gecko-Inspired Adhesive,'' Langmuir, 2012, 28 (23), pp 8746-8752
    DOI: 10.1021/la3004855
  41. Wan, J.; Tian, Y.; Zhou, M.; Zhang, X.-J.; and Meng, Y.-G. ``Experimental research of load effect on the anisotropic friction behaviors of gecko seta array,'' Acta Phys. Sin. 61(1):016202, 2012.
  42. Z-z. Wang, Y. Xu and P. Gu, ``Adhesive behaviors of gecko-inspired nanofibrillar arrays: combination of experiments and finite element modeling,'' Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, to appear March 2012.
  43. L Xue, A Kovalev, F Thole, GT Rengarajan, ``Tailoring Normal Adhesion of Arrays of Thermoplastic, Spring-like Polymer Nanorods by Shaping Nanorod Tips,'' Langmuir, 28 (29), pp 10781-10788, June 2012.
    link DOI: 10.1021/la3020354
  44. S.Y. Yang , Andrew Carlson , Huanyu Cheng , Qingmin Yu , Numair Ahmed , Jian Wu , Seok Kim , Metin Sitti , Placid M. Ferreira , Yonggang Huang , and John A. Rogers, ``Elastomer Surfaces with Directionally Dependent Adhesion Strength and Their Use in Transfer Printing with Continuous Roll-to-Roll Applications,'' Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 2117-2122,
    DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104975.
  45. J. Yu, S. Chary, S. Das, J. Tamelier, K.L. Turner, and J. N. Israelachvili, ``Friction and Adhesion of Gecko-Inspired PDMS Flaps on Rough Surfaces,'' Langmuir, 2012, 28, pp. 11527-11534,
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la301783q
  46. C. Zhang, J. Zhou, D. Sameoto, X. Zhang, Y. Li, C. Menon, B.D. Gates, ``Determining adhesion of nonuniform arrays of fibrils,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 2012.
    DOI:10.1080/01694243.2012.691810
  47. T. Zhang, Z. Zhang, K-S. Kim, and H. Gao, ``An accordion model integrating self-cleaning, strong attachment and easy detachment functionalities of gecko adhesion,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2012
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  48. Zhou, M.; Pesika, N.; Zeng, H.; Wan, J.; Zhang, X.; Meng, Y.; Wen, S.; and Tian, Y. ``Design of gecko-inspired fibrillar surfaces with strong attachment and easy-removal properties: a numerical analysis of peel-zone,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 9(75):2424-2436, 2012.
  49. M. Zhou, K. Liu, J. Wan, X. Li, K. Jiang, H. Zeng, X. Zhang, Y. Meng, S. Wen, H. Zhu, Y. Tian, ``Anisotropic interfacial friction of inclined multiwall carbon nanotube array surface,'' Carbon, Volume 50, Issue 15, December 2012, Pages 5372-5379,
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2012.07.017

2013

  1. Ahmadi S and Menon C (2013) ``A New Model for Predicting Fiber Clumping Phenomenon in Bio-Inspired Dry Adhesives,'' Journal of Adhesion,
    link DOI:10.1080/00218464.2013.768946
  2. Sathya Chary, John Tamelier and Kimberly Turner, ``A microfabricated gecko-inspired controllable and reusable dry adhesive,'' Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 025013, 2013.
    link http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/22/2/025013
  3. Chary, S.; Tamelier, J.; Turner, K.L., "Articulation of angled semicircular microfibers for a gecko-inspired anisotropic adhesive," IEEE Int. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp.401,404, 20-24 Jan. 2013
    doi: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474263
  4. Chen, Chi-Mon and Chiang, Chang-Lung and Lai, Chien-Lin and Xie, Tao and Yang, Shu, ``Buckling-Based Strong Dry Adhesives Via Interlocking,'' Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 23, no. 30, 2013. link ,
    DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201300052
  5. N. Cramer and M. Teodorescu, ``Analysis of Polymer Micro Fibers: A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Approach ,'' ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, doi:10.1115/DETC2013-12702
  6. Cui, Yanbin;Ju, Yang;Xu, Baiyao;Wang, Peng;Kojima, Naoki;Ichioka, Kazuma; Hosoi, Atsushi; ``Mimicking a gecko's foot with strong adhesive strength based on a spinnable vertically aligned carbon nanotube array,'' RSC Adv., 2014,4, 9056-9060 link DOI: 10.1039/C3RA46113K
  7. Saurabh Das, Sathya Chary, Jing Yu, John Tamelier, Kimberly L. Turner, and Jacob N. Israelachvil, ``JKR theory for the stick-slip peeling and adhesion hysteresis of gecko mimetic patterned surfaces with a smooth glass surface,'' Langmuir just accepted 5 Nov. 2013. link DOI: 10.1021/la403420f
  8. Day P, Eason EV, Esparza N, Christensen D, Cutkosky M. ``Microwedge Machining for the Manufacture of Directional Dry Adhesives,'' ASME. J. Micro Nano-Manuf. 2013;1(1):011001-011001-10. doi:10.1115/1.4023161.
  9. J.P. Diaz Tellez, S Harirchian-Saei, Y Li and C Menon, ``Adhesion enhancement of biomimetic dry adhesives by nanoparticle in situ synthesis ,'' Smart Materials and Structures Volume 22 Number 10, link doi:10.1088/0964-1726/22/10/105031
  10. E.V. Eason, N. Esparza, D. Christensen, M. Cutkosky, ``Micro-Wedge machining for the manufacture of directional dry adhesives,'' Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing, 2013.
  11. Andrew G. Gillies, Jonghun Kwak, Ronald S. Fearing, ``Controllable particle adhesion with a magnetically actuated synthetic gecko adhesive'' Advanced Functional Materials, 7 Feb. 2013.
    link DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201203122
  12. A. G. Gillies, J. Puthoff, M.J. Cohen, K. Autumn, and R. S. Fearing, ``Dry Self-Cleaning Properties of Hard and Soft Fibrillar Structures,'' ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, June 2013 (just accepted) link DOI: 10.1021/am400839n
  13. A. G. Gillies, H. Lin, A. Henry, A. Ren, K. Shiuan, R. S. Fearing and Robert J. Full ``Gecko toe and lamellar shear adhesion on macroscopic, engineered rough surfaces,'' J Exp Biol, online October 10, 2013. link DOI: 10.1242/jeb.092015
  14. L.W. He, S.P. Yan, B.Q. Li, G. Zhao, J.R. Chu, ``Adhesion model of side contact for an extensible elastic fiber,'' International Journal of Solids and Structures vol. 50, no. 16-17, pp. 2659 - 2666, 2013. link DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2013.04.018
  15. Heepe, L., Kovalev, A. E., Filippov, A. E., Gorb, S. N. ``Adhesion Failure at 180000 Frames per Second: Direct Observation of the Detachment Process of a Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive,'' Physical Review Letters, 111(10), 104301, (2013). link
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.104301
  16. Henrey, M, Tellez, JPD, Wormnes, K, Pambaguian, L, and Menon C, ``Towards the use of mushroom-capped dry adhesives in outer space: effects of low pressure and temperature on adhesion strength,'' Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No.1, pp. 185-190, 2013. link DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2013.03.003
  17. Izadi, H.; Penlidis, A.; ``Polymeric Bio-inspired Dry Adhesives: Van der Waals or Electrostatic Interactions?'', Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, 2013, 7, 588-608.
  18. Izadi, H.; Sarikhani, K.; Penlidis, A.; ``Instabilities of Teflon AF Thin Films in Alumina Nanochannels and Adhesion of Bi-level Teflon AF Nanopillars,'' Nanotechnlogy, 2013, 503306.
  19. Hadi Izadi, Mehrnaz Golmakani and Alexander Penlidis, ``Enhanced adhesion and friction by electrostatic interactions of double-level Teflon nanopillars,'' Soft Matter, 2013,9, 1985-1996 link DOI: 10.1039/C2SM27329B
  20. Haytam Kasem and Michael Varenberg, ``Effect of counterface roughness on adhesion of mushroom-shaped microstructure,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 October 2013 vol. 10 no. 87 20130620, link doi: 10.1098/.rsif.2013.0620
  21. Walid Bin Khaled and Dan Sameoto, ``Anisotropic dry adhesive via cap defects,'' Bioinspir. Biomim. 8 (2013) 044002, link DOI: doi:10.1088/1748-3182/8/4/044002
  22. Yongkwan Kim, Robert K. Claus, Francesca Limanto, Ronald S. Fearing, and Roya Maboudian, ``Friction Characteristics of Polymeric Nanofiber Arrays against Substrates with Tailored Geometry,'' Langmuir June 2013. link DOI: 10.1021/la400641a
  23. J. Krahn and C. Menon, ``Dry adhesives with sensing features ,'' Smart Materials and Structures Volume 22 Number 8, 2013. link DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/8/085010
  24. J. Krahn and C. Menon, ``Characterization of Dry Adhesives Fabricated Using a Novel Mass Production Manufacturing Technique,'' Macromolecular Reaction Engineering no. 1862-8338, 2013. link DOI: 10.1002/mren.201300111
  25. Krahn, JM, Pattantyus-Abraham, AG, Menon, C, ``Polymeric electro-dry-adhesives for use on conducting surfaces,'' Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 2013. link doi:10.1177/1464420713509376
  26. Li, Yasong; Zhang, Cheng; Zhou, James H.-W.; Menon, Carlo; Gates, Byron D., ``Measuring Shear-Induced Adhesion of Gecko-Inspired Fibrillar Arrays Using Scanning Probe Techniques,'' Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, no. 1862-8338, 2013
    link DOI: 10.1002/mren.201300113
  27. Manuel L.B. Palacio, Bharat Bhushan, Scott R. Schricker, ``Gecko-inspired fibril nanostructures for reversible adhesion in biomedical applications,'' Materials Letters, Vol. 92, 1 February 2013, pp. 409-412
    link http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2012.11.023
  28. Pattantyus-Abraham, AG, Krahn, JM, Menon, C (2013) ``Recent advances in nanostructured biomimetic dry adhesives,'' Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, doi:10.3389/fbioe.2013.00022
  29. Marco Piccardo, Antoine Chateauminois, Christian Fretigny, Nicola M. Pugno, and Metin Sitti, ``Contact compliance effects in the frictional response of bioinspired fibrillar adhesives,'' J. R. Soc. Interface June 6, 2013 10 83 20130182; link doi:10.1098/rsif.2013.0182 1742-5662
  30. Puglisi, G. and Truskinovsky, L., ``Cohesion-decohesion asymmetry in geckos,'' Phys. Rev. E, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 032714, Mar. 2013.
    link DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032714
  31. J. B. Puthoff, M. Holbrook, M. J. Wilkinson, K. Jin, N. S. Pesika and K. Autumn, ``Dynamic friction in natural and synthetic gecko setal arrays,'' Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 4855-4863
    link http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3SM50267H
  32. I. Rodriguez, C. T. Lim, S. Natarajan, A. Y. Y. Ho, E. L. Van, N. Elmouelhi, H. Y. Low, M. Vyakarnam, K. Cooper, ``Shear Adhesion Strength of Gecko Inspired Tapes on Surfaces with Variable Roughness,'' The Journal of Adhesion , March 2013,
    link DOI: 10.1080/00218464.2013.767198
  33. Roger A. Sauer, Matthias Holl, ``A detailed 3D finite element analysis of the peeling behaviour of a gecko spatula,''Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Vol. 16, no. 6, 2013. link DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2011.628944
  34. A. Y. Stark, I. Badge, N. A. Wucinich, T. W. Sullivan, P. H. Niewiarowski, and A. Dhinojwala, ``Surface wettability plays a significant role in gecko adhesion underwater,'' PNAS 2013 110 (16) 6340-6345; April 1, 2013, link doi:10.1073/pnas.1219317110
  35. John Tamelier, Sathya Chary, and Kimberly L. Turner ``Importance of Loading and Unloading Procedures for Gecko-Inspired Controllable Adhesives,'' Langmuir 2013 29 (34), 10881-10890 link DOI: 10.1021/la400835n
  36. Yu Tian, Jin Wan, Noshir Pesika and Ming Zhou, ``Bridging nanocontacts to macroscale gecko adhesion by sliding soft lamellar skin supported setal array'' Scientific Reports 3, no. 1382, 5 March 2013.
    link doi:10.1038/srep01382
  37. Tomelie, J.; Chary, S.; Turner, K.L., "Optimal articulation strategy for a microfabricated gecko-inspired controllable adhesive," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers & Eurosensors XXVII. pp.1923,1926, 16-20 June 2013
    link DOI: 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627169
  38. Peng Zhang, Shiyuan Liu, and Hao Lv, ``Fabrication and Properties of Dual-Level Hierarchical Structures Mimicking Gecko Foot Hairs,'' Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 13, Number 2, February 2013 , pp. 781-786(6)
    link DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2013.6013
  39. Ming Zhou, Noshir Pesika, Hongbo Zeng, Yu Tian, Jacob Israelachvili, ``Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces,'' Friction June 2013, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp 114-129 link DOI:10.1007/s40544-013-0011-5
  40. Ming Zhou, Yu Tian, Dan Sameoto, Xiangjun Zhang, Yonggang Meng, and Shizhu Wen, ``Controllable Interfacial Adhesion Applied to Transfer Light and Fragile Objects by Using Gecko Inspired Mushroom-Shaped Pillar Surface,'' ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2013 5 (20), 10137-10144, link DOI:10.1021/am402815x

2014

  1. Uyiosa A. Abusomwan, and Metin Sitti, ``Mechanics of Load-Drag-Unload Contact Cleaning of Gecko- Inspired Fibrillar Adhesives,'' Langmuir, 2014 30 (40), pp. 11913-11918. link DOI: 10.1021/la5022998
  2. Aksak, Burak, Korhan Sahin, and Metin Sitti. ``The optimal shape of elastomer mushroom-like fibers for high and robust adhesion,'' Beilstein journal of nanotechnology 5, no. 1 (2014): 630-638.
  3. Kellar Autumn, Peter H. Niewiarowski and Jonathan B. Puthoff, ``Gecko Adhesion as a Model System for Integrative Biology, Interdisciplinary Science, and Bioinspired Engineering,'' Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Vol. 45: 445-470, link DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091839
  4. I. Badge, A.Y. Stark, E.L. Paoloni, P.H. Niewiarowski and A. Dhinojwala, ``The Role of Surface Chemistry in Adhesion and Wetting of Gecko Toe Pads,'' Scientific Reports 4, Article number: 6643 (2014) doi:10.1038/srep06643
  5. Bovero E, and Menon C, Enhancing dry adhesives and replica molding with Ethyl Cyano-Acrylate, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol.23, No.8, 2014.
    doi:10.1088/0964-1726/23/8/085031
  6. Andrew G. Gillies and Ronald S. Fearing, ``Simulation of synthetic gecko arrays shearing on rough surfaces,'' J. R. Soc. Interface, published 2 April 2014. link DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0021
  7. Hawkes, Elliot W., Eric V. Eason, David L. Christensen, and Mark R. Cutkosky. ``Human climbing with efficiently scaled gecko-inspired dry adhesivesm'' Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12, no. 102 (2015): 20140675. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0675.
  8. L.W. He S.P. Yan and J.R. Chu, ``Directional adhesion of gecko-inspired two-level fibrillar structures,'' European ournal of Mechanics - A/Solids, vol. 47, Sept-Oct. 2014, Pages 246-253. link DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2014.05.001
  9. L. Heepe, G. Carbone, E. Pierro, A. E. Kovalev and S. N. Gorb, ``Adhesion tilt-tolerance in bio-inspired mushroom-shaped adhesive microstructure,'' Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 011906 (2014) link DOI:10.1063/1.4860991
  10. Lars Heepe and Stanislav Gorb, ``Biologically Inspired Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive Microstructures,'' Annual Review of Materials Research 2014, 44, published online DOI:10.1146/annurev-matsci-062910-100458
  11. Henrey M, Ahmed A, Boscariol P, Shannon L, and Menon C (2014) Abigaille-III: A Versatile, Bioinspired Hexapod for Scaling Smooth Vertical Surfaces, Journal of Bionic Engineering, Vol. 11, No.1, pp.1-17 link
  12. Hu, Congcong and Alex Greaney, P., ``Role of seta angle and flexibility in the gecko adhesion mechanism,'' Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 074302 (2014),
    DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4892628
  13. Hu, Hong, Hongmiao Tian, Xiangming Li, Jinyou Shao, Yucheng Ding, Hongzhong Liu, and Ningli An. ``Biomimetic mushroom-shaped microfibers for dry adhesives by electrically induced polymer deformation.'' ACS applied materials & interfaces 6, no. 16 (2014): 14167-14173.
  14. Hadi Izadi, Katherine M. E. Stewart, and Alexander Penlidis, ``Role of contact electrification and electrostatic interactions in gecko adhesion,'' J R Soc Interface 2014 11: 20140371. link
    doi:10.1098/rsif.2014.0371
  15. Jaeyoung Jeong, Juho Kim, Kwangsun Song, Kellar Autumn, and Jongho Lee ``Geckoprinting: assembly of microelectronic devices on unconventional surfaces by transfer printing with isolated gecko setal arrays'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 October 2014 vol. 11 no. 99 20140627 link doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0627
  16. Jin, K., Cremaldi, J. C., Erickson, J. S., Tian, Y., Israelachvili, J. N., & Pesika, N. S. (2014). Biomimetic bidirectional switchable adhesive inspired by the gecko. Advanced Functional Materials, 24(5), 574-579. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201301960
  17. Li, Y, Ng, HW, Gates, BD, and Menon C (2014) ``Material versatility using replica molding for large-scale fabrication of high aspect-ratio, high density arrays of nano-pillars,'' Nanotechnology, Vol. 25 No. 28, 2014. link doi:10.1088/0957-4484/25/28/285303
  18. Ma, S., Wang, D., Liang, Y., Sun, B., Gorb, S. N., & Zhou, F. ``Gecko-Inspired but Chemically Switched Friction and Adhesion on Nanofibrillar Surfaces,'' Small, 11(9-10), 1131-1137. 2015.
  19. Y. Menguc, M. Roehrig, U. Abusomwan, H. Hoelscher, and M. Sitti, ``Staying sticky: contact self-cleaning of gecko-inspired adhesives,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 May 2014 vol. 11 no. 94 20131205, 19 February 2014 doi: 10.1098/.rsif.2013.1205
  20. Zhuxia Rong, Yanmin Zhou, Bingan Chen, John Robertson, Walter Federle, Stephan Hofmann, Ullrich Steiner and Pola Goldberg-Oppenheimer, ``Bio-Inspired Hierarchical Polymer Fiber-Carbon Nanotube Adhesives,'' Advanced Materials Volume 26, Issue 9, pages 1456-1461, March 5, 2014.
  21. Donald Ruffatto III, Aaron Parness, and Matthew Spenko, ``Improving controllable adhesion on both rough and smooth surfaces with a hybrid electrostatic/gecko-like adhesive,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 April 2014 vol. 11 no. 93 20131089 link doi: 10.1098/.rsif.2013.1089
  22. Sariola, V., Sitti, M. (2014). ``Mechanically Switchable Elastomeric Microfibrillar Adhesive Surfaces for Transfer Printing,'' Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 1: 1300159. doi:10.1002/admi.201300159
  23. Seungwan Seo, Jehong Lee, Kwang-Seop Kim, Kwang Hee Ko, Jong Hyun Lee, and Jongho Lee, ``Anisotropic Adhesion of Micropillars with Spatula Pads,'' ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014 6 (3), 1345-1350. link
  24. Soltannia B., Sameoto D., Strong, ``Reversible Underwater Adhesion via Gecko-Inspired Hydrophobic Fibers,'' ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12/2014; 6(24):21995-22003. link DOI: 10.1021/am5075375
  25. Sukho Song, Carmel Majidi, and Metin Sitti, ``GeckoGripper: A Soft , Inflatable Robotic Gripper using Gecko-Inspired Elastomer Micro-Fiber Adhesives,'' IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 14-18, 2014, Chicago, IL, USA.
  26. Song, S. and Sitti, M. (2014), ``Soft Grippers Using Micro-fibrillar Adhesives for Transfer Printing,'' Adv. Mater., 26: 4901-4906. doi:10.1002/adma.201400630
  27. Tannouri, P, Arafeh, KM, Krahn, JM, Beaupré, SL, Menon, C and Branda, NR, ``A Photoresponsive Biomimetic Dry-Adhesive Based on Doped PDMS Micro-Structures,'' ACS Chemistry of Materials, 2014.
    DOI: 10.1021/cm502222c
  28. Wang, L. F., Liu, J. Q., Dong, Y., Yang, B., Chen, X., & Yang, C. S. (2014). ``Polydimethyl-siloxane film for biomimetic dry adhesive integrated with capacitive biopotentials sensing,'' Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 205, 168-175, 2014.
  29. Yue Wang, Hong Hu, Jinyou Shao, and Yucheng Ding, ``Fabrication of Well-Defined Mushroom-Shaped Structures for Biomimetic Dry Adhesive by Conventional Photolithography and Molding,'' ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014 6 (4), 2213-2218.
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  31. Byungsuk Yoo, Sungbum Cho, Seungwan Seo, and Jongho Lee, ``Elastomeric Angled Microflaps with Reversible Adhesion for Transfer-Printing Semiconductor Membranes onto Dry Surfaces,'' ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Oct. 2014.
    DOI: 10.1021/am505286b
  32. Zhang, Cheng, James H-W. Zhou, Dan Sameoto, Xin Zhang, Yasong Li, Him Wai Ng, Carlo Menon, and Byron D. Gates. ``Determining adhesion of nonuniform arrays of fibrils.'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 28, no. 3-4 (2014): 320-336. DOI: 10.1080/01694243.2012.691810
  33. Yanmin Zhou, Adam Robinson, Ullrich Steiner and Walter Federle, ``Insect adhesion on rough surfaces: analysis of adhesive contact of smooth and hairy pads on transparent microstructured substrates,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 6 September 2014 vol. 11 no. 98 20140499 link DOI:10.1098/rsif.2014.0499

2015

  1. Bovero, E., Krahn, J., Menon, C., ``Fabrication and Testing of Self Cleaning Dry Adhesives Utilizing Hydrophobicity Gradient,'' Journal of Bionic Engineering volume 12, issue 2, year 2015, pp. 270 - 275 doi:10.1016/S1672-6529(14)60119-0 link
  2. Cutkosky, Mark R. ``Climbing with adhesion: from bioinspiration to biounderstanding.'' Interface Focus 5, no. 4 (2015): 20150015.
  3. Das, S., Cadirov, N., Chary, S., Kaufman, Y., Hogan, J., Turner, K.L., and Israelachvili, J.N., ``Stick-slip friction of gecko-mimetic flaps on smooth and rough surfaces'' Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Jan. 14, 2015. DOI:10.1098/rsif.2014.1346
  4. Eason, E.V., Hawkes, E.W., Windheim, M., Christensen, D.L., Libby, T. and Cutkosky, M.R., ``Stress distribution and contact area measurements of a gecko toe using a high-resolution tactile sensor,'' Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 10, no. 1, 016013, February 2015. DOI:10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016013
  5. Dong-Jie Guo, Rui Liu, Yu Cheng, Hao Zhang, Li-Ming Zhou, Shao-Ming Fang, Winston Howard Elliott, and Wei Tan, ``Reverse Adhesion of a Gecko-Inspired Synthetic Adhesive Switched by an Ion-Exchange Polymer-Metal Composite Actuator,'' ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2015 7 (9), 5480-5487 DOI: 10.1021/am509163m
  6. Hawkes, E.W., Christensen, D.L., Han, A.K., Jiang, H. and Cutkosky, M.R., ``Grasping without Squeezing: Shear Adhesion Gripper with Fibrillar Thin Film,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, May 26-30, 2015.
  7. Hawkes, Elliot W., David L. Christensen, and Mark R. Cutkosky, ``Vertical Dry Adhesive Climbing with a 100x Bodyweight Payload,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, May 26-30, 2015.
  8. Elliot W. Hawkes, Hao Jiang, and Mark R. Cutkosky ``Three-dimensional dynamic surface grasping with dry adhesion,'' The International Journal of Robotics Research, 0278364915584645, June 29, 2015 doi:10.1177/0278364915584645
  9. Jiang, H., Hawkes, E.W., Arutyunov, V., Tims, J., Fuller, C., King, J.P., Seubert, C., Chang, H.L., Parness, A., and Cutkosky, M.R., ``Scaling Controllable Adhesives to Grapple Floating Objects in Space,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, May 26-30, 2015.
  10. Jeffrey Krahn, Enrico Bovero, and Carlo Menon, ``Magnetic Field Switchable Dry Adhesives,'' ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7 (4), pp 2214-2222, DOI: 10.1021/am505140f
  11. Yang Li , Hao Zhang , Yagang Yao , Taotao Li , Yongyi Zhang , Qingwen Li and zhendong Dai, ``Transfer of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays onto flexible substrates for gecko-inspired dry adhesive application,'' RSC Adv., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5RA06206C link
  12. Li, Y., Zhou, J. H. W., Zhang, C., Menon, C., and Gates, B. D. ``Harnessing tunable scanning probe techniques to measure shear enhanced adhesion of gecko-inspired fibrillar arrays,'' ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7 (4), pp 2340-2348 DOI: 10.1021/am506739q
  13. Marvi, H. and Han, Y. and Sitti, M., ``Actively controlled fibrillar friction surfaces,'' Applied Physics Letters, 106, 051602 (2015), DOI:10.1063/1.4907255 link
  14. O'Rorke, R.D., Steele, T.W.J. and Taylor, H.K., 2016. Bioinspired fibrillar adhesives: a review of analytical models and experimental evidence for adhesion enhancement by surface patterns. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 30(4), pp.362-391. DOI: link
  15. Yue Wang, Xiangming Li, Hongmiao Tian, Hong Hu, Yu Tian, Jinyou Shao, Yucheng Ding, ``Rectangle-capped and tilted micropillar array for enhanced anisotropic anti-shearing in biomimetic adhesion,'' J. R. Soc. Interface 2015 12 20150090; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0090.
  16. A. Wasay and D. Sameoto, ``Gecko gaskets for self-sealing and high-strength reversible bonding of microfluidics,'' Lab on a Chip, 2015, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00342C
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2016

  1. Bacca, Mattia, Jamie A. Booth, Kimberly L. Turner, and Robert M. McMeeking, ``Load sharing in Bioinspired fibrillar adhesives with backing layer interactions and interfacial misalignment.'' Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2016).
  2. Christensen, D.L., Suresh, S.A., Hahm, K. and Cutkosky, M.R., "Let's All Pull Together: Principles for Sharing Large Loads in Microrobot Teams." Robotics and Automation Letters. Published online February 15, 2016. DOI:10.1109/LRA.2016.2530314.
  3. Peter H. Niewiarowski, Alyssa Y. Stark and Ali Dhinojwala, ``Sticking to the story: outstanding challenges in gecko-inspired adhesives,'' Journal of Experimental Biology (2016) 219, 912-919 doi:10.1242/jeb.080085
  4. Taehoon Kim, Junyong Park, Jongmoo Sohn, Donghwi Cho, and Seokwoo Jeon, ``Bioinspired, Highly Stretchable, and Conductive Dry Adhesives Based on 1D-2D Hybrid Carbon Nanocomposites for All-in-One ECG Electrodes'', ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b01355
  5. Ming Xu, Feng Du, Sabyasachi Ganguli, Ajit Roy and Liming Dai, ``Carbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range,'' Nature Communications 7, Article number: 13450 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms13450

2017

  1. Drotlef, D.M., Amjadi, M., Yunusa, M. and Sitti, M., 2017. Bioinspired composite microfibers for skin adhesion and signal amplification of wearable sensors. Advanced materials, 29(28), p.1701353. DOI
  2. Glick, P., Suresh, S.A., Ruffatto III, D., Cutkosky, M.R., Tolley, M.T., and Parness, A. ``A soft robotic gripper with gecko-inspired adhesive,'' Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. doi:10.1109/LRA.2018.2792688.
  3. Jiang, H., Hawkes, E.W., Fuller, C., Estrada, M.A., Suresh, S.A., Abcouwer, N., Han, A.K., Wang, S., Ploch, C.J., Parness, A. and Cutkosky, M.R. ``A Robotic Device Using Gecko-Inspired Adhesives can Grasp and Manipulate Large Objects in Microgravity,'' Science Robotics. 2017. doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aan4545.
  4. Jae-Kang Kim, Michael Varenberg, ``Biomimetic wall-shaped adhesive microstructure for shear-induced attachment: the effects of pulling angle and preliminary displacement,'' Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2017; 14 (137): 20170832 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0832 link
  5. Song, Sukho and Drotlef, Dirk-Michael and Majidi, Carmel and Sitti, Metin, ``Controllable load sharing for soft adhesive interfaces on three-dimensional surfaces,'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1620344114.

2018

  1. Cho, Y., Minsky, H.K., Jiang, Y., Yin, K., Turner, K.T. and Yang, S., ``Shear Adhesion of Tapered Nanopillar Arrays,'' ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018. 10(13), pp.11391-11397. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b02303
  2. Fischer, S.C., Boyadzhieva, S., Hensel, R., Kruttwig, K. and Arzt, E., 2018. Adhesion and relaxation of a soft elastomer on surfaces with skin like roughness. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 80, pp.303-310. DOI
  3. Wang, Zhengzhi. "Slanted Functional Gradient Micropillars for Optimal Bioinspired Dry Adhesion." ACS nano 12, no. 2 (2018): 1273-1284. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b07493

2019

  1. Kim S, Jiang Y, Towell KL, Boutilier MS, Nayakanti N, Cao C, Chen C, Jacob C, Zhao H, Turner KT, Hart AJ. ``Soft nanocomposite electroadhesives for digital micro-and nanotransfer printing,'' Science advances. 2019 Oct 1;5(10):eaax4790. DOI: 0.1126/sciadv.aax4790

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