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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. 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.
  4. B.N.J. Persson, ``On the mechanism of adhesion in biological systems,'' Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 118, no. 16, 22 April 2003.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. C. Menon, M. Murphy, and M. Sitti, ``Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots,'' IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenyang, China, Aug 2004.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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, 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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).
  12. M.T. Northen and K.L. Turner, ``A batch fabricated biomimetic dry adhesive,'' Nanotechnology, vol. 16, pp. 1159-1166, 2005.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. M. T. Northen, K.L. Turner, C. Greiner and E. Arzt, ``A hierarchical gecko-inspired switchable adhesive,'' Hilton Head, 2006.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. M. Varenberg, A. Peressadko, S. Gorb, and E. Arzt, ``Effect of real contact geometry on adhesion,'' Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 89, 121905 (2006)
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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)
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. C. Majidi, ``Remarks on formulating an adhesion problem using Eulers elastica,'' Mechanics Research Communications, vol. 34, pp. 85-90, 2007.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. P.K. Porwal and C. Y. Hui, ``Strength statistics of adhesive contact between a fibrillar structure and a rough substrate,'' J. Royal Society Interface, 10.1098/rsif.2007.1133.
  41. L. Qu and L. Dai, ``Gecko-Foot-Mimetic aligned single-walled carbon nanotube dry adhesives with unique electrical and thermal properties,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 19, pp. 3844-3849, 2007.
  42. S. Reddy, E. Arzt, and A. del Campo, ``Bioinspired surfaces with switchable adhesion,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 19, pp. 3833-3837, 2007.
  43. A.P. Russell, M.K. Johnson, and S.M. Delannoy, ``Insights from studies of gecko-inspired adhesion and their impact on our understanding of the evolution of the gekkotan adhesive system'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. 1119-1143, 2007.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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).
  47. 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.
  48. M. Varenberg and S. Gorb, ``Close-up of mushroom-shaped fibrillar adhesive microstructure: contact element behaviour,'' Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif.2007.1201
  49. S. Wang, ``Size effect in nanoadhesion of fibrillar structure'' Chinese Science Bulletin, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 592-595, March, 2007 DOI10.1007/s11434-007-0099-y
  50. H. Wang, T. Mei, and X. Wang, `` Modelling and Rough Surface Compliance Analysis of Biomimetic Micro/Nano Adhesive Array,'' Int. Conf. on Information Acquisition ICIA '07, 8-11 July 2007, pp. 168-172.
  51. Z. Xia and J. Liang, ``Multiscale modeling of carbon nanotube adhesion for dry adhesives,'' Materials Research Society Symp., vol. 975, DD10-09, 2007.
  52. Yao, H.; Gao, H., ``Mechanical principles of robust and releasable adhesion of gecko,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Volume 21, Numbers 12-13, pp. pp. 1185-1212, 2007.
  53. H. Yao, G. Della Rocca, P.R. Guduru, and H. Gao, ``Adhesion and sliding response of a biologically inspired fibrillar surface: experimental observations,'' Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif2007.1225, 2007.
  54. B. Zhao, N. Pesika, K. Rosenberg, Y. Tian, H. Zeng, P. McGuiggan, K. Autumn, and J. Israelachvili, ``Adhesion and Friction Force Coupling of Gecko Setal Arrays: Implications for Structured Adhesive Surfaces,'' Langmuir, Dec. 2007, 10.1021/la702126k.
  55. A. Zhao, T. Mei, X. Lin, L. Ni, ``Fabrication and characterization of tree-like nanorod arrays for bionic gecko foot-hairs,'' 7th IEEE Conf. on Nanotechnology, pp. 259-262, 2-5 Aug. 2007.

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.
  3. B. Bhushan, X. Ling, A. Jungen, and C. Hierold, ``Adhesion and friction of a multiwalled carbon nanotube sliding against single-walled carbon nanotube,'' Physical Review B, vol. 77, no. 165428, 29 April 2008.
  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
  5. B. Chen, P.D. Wu, H. Gao, ``Hierarchical modelling of attachment and detachment mechanisms of gecko toe adhesion,'' Proc. Royal Soc. A, vol. 464, no. 2094, pp. 1639-1652, June 08, 2008. doi10.1098/rspa.2007.0350
  6. B Chen, PD Wu, Y Huang, ``Detaching speed of a fibrillar interface,'' Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 103901 (2008); DOI:10.1063/1.2981208.
  7. E. Cheung and M. Sitti, ``Adhesion of Biologically Inspired Oil-Coated Polymer Micropillars,'' Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 22, pp. 569-589, 2008.
  8. W.K. Cho and I. S. Choi ``Fabrication of Hairy Polymeric Films Inspired by Geckos: Wetting and High Adhesion Properties,'' Advanced Functional Materials vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1089-1096, April 11, 2008.
  9. J. Davies, S. Haq, T. Hawke, and J.P. Sargent, ``A practical approach to the development of a synthetic Gecko tape,'' Int. Jnl. of Adhesion and Adhesives, doi:10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2008.07.009.
  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
  11. 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.
  12. S. Kim, M. Spenko, S. Trujillo, B. Heyneman, D. Santos, M.R. Cutkosky, ``Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion,'' IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 65-74, Feb. 2008.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. J. Lee and R. S. Fearing, ``Contact Self-Cleaning of Synthetic Gecko Adhesive from Polymer Microfibers,'' Langmuir 10 Sep. 2008, doi:10.102/la8021485.
  17. J. Lee, R. S. Fearing, K. Komvopoulos, ``Directional adhesion of gecko-inspired angled microfiber arrays,'' Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 191910 (2008); DOI:10.1063/1.3006334
  18. J. Liu, C.-Y. Hui, L. Shen, and A. Jagota, ``Compliance of a microfibril subjected to shear and normal loads,'' Journal of Royal Society Interface, vol. 5, pp. 1087-1097, 2008.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. G. Lu, W. Hong, L. Tong, H. Bai, Y. Wei, and G. Shi, ``Enhanced Adhesion of Polythiophene Nanotubule Arrays on Smooth Surfaces,'' Nano, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 2342-2348, 2008.
  22. 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.
  23. C. Majidi and R. Fearing, ``Adhesion of an elastic plate to a sphere,'' Proc. Royal Society, A, doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.0341, Feb. 2008.
  24. C. Majidi and R.S. Fearing, ``Mechanics of a novel shear-activated microfiber array adhesive,'' Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1086-U01-11, 2008.
  25. P.H. Niewiarowski, S. Lopez, L. Ge, E. Hagan, and A. Dhinojwala, ``Sticky gecko feet: the role of temperature and humidity,'' PLoS ONE, May 2008, vol. 3, no. 5, e2192. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002192
  26. M.T. Northen, C. Greiner, E. Arzt, K. L. Turner, ``A Gecko-Inspired Reversible Adhesive,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 20, no. 20, pp. 3905-3909, Sep. 5, 2008.
  27. N.M. Pugno and E. Lepore, ``Observation of optimal geckos adhesion on nanorough surfaces,'' Biosystemsv. 94, pp. 218-22, 2008.
  28. L. Qu, L. Dai, M. Stone, Z. Xia, Z.L. Wang, ``Carbon nanotube arrays with strong shear binding-on and easy normal lifting-off,'' Science, vol. 322, pp. 238-242, 10 Oct. 2008.
  29. M.Reyes and R. Fearing, ``Macromodel for the mechanics of gecko hair adhesion,'' 2008 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2008, pp. 1602-1607.
  30. 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
  31. D. Santos, B. Heyneman, S. Kim, N. Esparza, M. Cutkosky, ``Gecko-inspired climbing behaviors on vertical and overhanging surfaces,'' 2008 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2008, pp. 1125-1131.
  32. B. Schubert, J. Lee, C. Majidi, R.S. Fearing, ``Sliding induced adhesion of stiff polymer microfiber arrays: 2. Microscale behaviour,'' Journal Royal Society, Interface, Jan. 22, 2008. 10.1098/rsif.2007.1309
  33. S. Sethi, L. Ge, L. Ci, P.M. Ajayan, and A. Dhinojwala, ``Gecko-inspired carbon nanotube-based self-cleaning adhesives,'' Nanoletters, 10.1021/nl0727765, 12 Feb. 2008.
  34. L. Shen, N.J. Glassmaker, A. Jagota and C.-Y. Hui, ``Strongly enhanced static friction using a film-terminated fibrillar interface,'' Soft Matter, vol. 4, pp. 618-625, 2008.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. M. C. Strus, L. Zalamea, A. Raman, R. B. Pipes, C. V. Nguyen, and E. A. Stach, ``Peeling Force Spectroscopy: Exposing the Adhesive Nanomechanics of One-Dimensional Nanostructures,'' Nano Letters vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 554-550, 2008.
  38. M. Teodorescu, C. Majidi, H. Rahnejat, and R.S. Fearing, ``Effect of surface roughness on adhesion and friction of microfibers in side contact,'' Proc. of the STLE/ASME Int. Joint. Tribology Conf. Oct. 20-22, 2008 Miami FL.
  39. M. Varenberg and S. Gorb, ``A beetle-inspired solution for underwater adhesion,'' vol. 5, no. 20, pp. 383-385, March 06, 2008. DOI10.1098/rsif.2007.1171
  40. C.T. Wirth, S. Hofmann, and J. Robertson, ``Surface properties of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays,'' Diamond and Related Materials, doi:10.1016/j.diamond.2007.11.019, 2008.
  41. T. Yamaguchi, N. Gravish, K. Autumn and C. Creton, `` Microscopic Modeling of the Dynamics of Frictional Adhesion in the Gecko Attachment System,'' J. Phys. Chem. B, December 2, 2008 DOI:10.1021/jp8067415
  42. M.F. Yanik, ``Towards gecko-feet-inspired bandages,'' Trends in Biotechnology, doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.10.001, 2008.
  43. B. Zhao, N. Pesika, H. Zeng, Z. Wei, Y. Chen, K. Autumn, K. Turner and J. Israelachvili, ``Role of Tilted Adhesion Fibrils (Setae) in the Adhesion and Locomotion of Gecko-like Systems'' J. Phys. Chem. B, December 29, 2008, DOI: 10.1021/jp806079d

2009

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Christian Greiner, Eduard Arzt, Aránzazu del Campo ``Hierarchical Gecko-Like Adhesives,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 479-482, 2009. YR: 2009
  5. 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.
  6. Tae-il Kim, Hoon Eui Jeong, Kahp Y. Suh, and Hong H. Lee, ``Stooped Nanohairs: Geometry-Controllable, Unidirectional, Reversible, and Robust Gecko-like Dry Adhesive,'' Advanced Material vol. 21, pp. 1-6, 2009. 10.1002/adma.200803710
  7. 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
  8. R. Long and C.-Y. Hui, ``The effect of preload on the pull-off force in indentation tests of microfibre arrays,'' Proc. Royal Society A, vol. 465 no. 2103 pp. 961-981, 8 March 2009, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2008.0362.
  9. Y. Maeno and Y. Nakayama, ``Geckolike high shear strength by carbon nanotube fiber adhesives,'' Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 012103 (2009); DOI:10.1063/1.3050450
  10. C. Majidi, ``Shear adhesion between an elastica and a rigid flat surface ,'' Mechanics Research Communications, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 369-372, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2008.10.010
  11. M.P. Murphy, B. Aksak, and M. Sitti, ``Gecko-Inspired Directional and Controllable Adhesion,'' Small, vol. 5, pp. 170-175, 2009. (published online 29 Dec. 2008 10.1002/smll.200801161).
  12. M.P. Murphy, S. Kim, and M. Sitti, ``Enhanced adhesion by gecko-inspired hierarchical fibrillar adhesives,'' Applied Materials and Interfaces, doi:10.1021/am8002439, 20 Mar. 2009.
  13. A. Parness, D. Soto, N. Esparza, N. Gravish, M. Wilkinson, K. Autumn and M. Cutkosky, ``A microfabricated wedge-shaped adhesive array displaying gecko-like dynamic adhesion, directionality and long lifetime,'' Journal of the Royal Society, Interface March 18, 2009. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0048
  14. H. Parsaiyana, F. Barazandeha, S. M. Rezaeia, M. Parsaiyanb and M. Safdaria, ``Wide-end fibers and their adhesion performance in biological attachment systems,'' Int. Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, vol. 29, pp. 444-450, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2008.08.001
  15. M. Schargott, ``A mechanical model of biomimetic adhesive pads with tilted and hierarchical structures,'' Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, vol. 4, 2009, doi:10.1088/1748-3182/4/2/026002.
  16. H.W. Shim, J.D. Kuppers, and H. Huang, ``Strong friction of silicon carbide nanowire films,'' Nanotechnology, vol. 20, no. 025704, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/20/2/025704, 2009.


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