Adhesion

Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces

Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang, Shaoting Lin, German Alberto Parada, Xuanhe Zhao

Citations: 1131 • 2015

Adhesion and friction in gecko toe attachment and detachment

Yu Tian, Noshir S. Pesika, Hongbo Zeng, Kenny Rosenberg, Boxin Zhao, Patricia McGuiggan, Kellar Autumn, Jacob N. Israelachvili

Citations: 651 • 2006

Synthetic gecko foot-hair micro/nano-structures as dry adhesives

Metin Sitti, Ronald S. Fearing

Citations: 498 • 2003

Carbon nanotube-based synthetic gecko tapes

Liehui Ge, Sunny Sethi, Lijie Ci, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Ali Dhinojwala

Citations: 438 • 2007

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

Seok Kim, Jian Wu, J. Andrew Carlson, Sung Hun Jin, Anton Kovalsky, Paul Glass, Zhuangjian Liu, Numair Ahmed, Steven L. Elgan, Weiqiu Chen, Placid M. Ferreira, Metin Sitti, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers

Citations: 435 • 2010

Survey of sticking effects for micro parts handling

Ronald S. Fearing

Citations: 404 • 2002

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

Moritz A. Graule, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Sawyer B. Fuller, Noah T. Jafferis, K. Y., Matthew Spenko, Roy Kornbluh, Robert J. Wood

Citations: 402 • 2016

Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels

Ji Liu, Shaoting Lin, Xinyue Liu, Zhao Qin, Yueying Yang, Jianfeng Zang, Xuanhe Zhao

Citations: 390 • 2020

Tough Hydrogels with Fast, Strong, and Reversible Underwater Adhesion Based on a Multiscale Design

Ping Rao, Tao Lin Sun, Liang Chen, Riku Takahashi, Gento Shinohara, Hui Guo, Daniel R. King, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong

Citations: 370 • 2018

Barnacle Cement Proteins‐Inspired Tough Hydrogels with Robust, Long‐Lasting, and Repeatable Underwater Adhesion

Hailong Fan, Jiahui Wang, Jian Ping Gong

Citations: 328 • 2020

Different Shades of Oxide: From Nanoscale Wetting Mechanisms to Contact Printing of Gallium-Based Liquid Metals

Kyle Doudrick, Shanliangzi Liu, Eva Mutunga, Kate L. Klein, Viraj G. Damle, Kripa K. Varanasi, Konrad Rykaczewski

Citations: 276 • 2014

Electroadhesive robots—wall climbing robots enabled by a novel, robust, and electrically controllable adhesion technology

Harsha Prahlad, Ron Pelrine, Scott D. Stanford, John Marlow, Roy Kornbluh

Citations: 274 • 2008

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

Aaron Parness, Daniel Soto, Noé Esparza, Nick Gravish, Matt Wilkinson, Kellar Autumn, Mark R. Cutkosky

Citations: 273 • 2009

Self‐Hydrophobization in a Dynamic Hydrogel for Creating Nonspecific Repeatable Underwater Adhesion

Lu Han, Menghao Wang, Lizbeth Ofelia Prieto‐López, Xu Deng, Jiaxi Cui

Citations: 271 • 2019

An Anti‐Freezing, Ambient‐Stable and Highly Stretchable Ionic Skin with Strong Surface Adhesion for Wearable Sensing and Soft Robotics

Binbin Ying, Ryan Zeyuan Chen, Runze Zuo, Jianyu Li, Xinyu Liu

Citations: 264 • 2021

Discovering Cell-Adhesion Peptides in Tissue Engineering: Beyond RGD

Nick Huettner, Tim R. Dargaville, Aurélien Forget

Citations: 255 • 2018

Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot

Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Barrett Heyneman, Virgilio Mattoli, Mark R. Cutkosky

Citations: 255 • 2007

Functional surface microstructures inspired by nature – From adhesion and wetting principles to sustainable new devices

Eduard Arzt, Haocheng Quan, Robert M. McMeeking, René Hensel

Citations: 251 • 2021

Waalbot II: Adhesion Recovery and Improved Performance of a Climbing Robot using Fibrillar Adhesives

Michael Murphy, Casey Kute, Yiğit Mengüç, Metin Sitti

Citations: 242 • 2010

A fast flexible ink-jet printing method for patterning dissociated neurons in culture

Neville E. Sanjana, Sawyer B. Fuller

Citations: 226 • 2004