Nature has developed reversibly adhesive surfaces whose stickiness has attracted much
research attention over the last decade. The central lesson from nature is that “patterned” or …

Adhesion is a fundamental phenomenon with great importance in technology, in our
everyday life, and in nature. In this article, we review physical interactions that resist the …

To improve the adhesive properties of artificial fibrillar contact structures, the attachment
systems of beetles from the family Chrysomelidae were chosen to serve as a model …

An instrument has been developed that allows in situ optical analysis and tribological
measurements for contacts between solid bodies; an interferometric optical analysis can be …

To characterize the effect of shearing on function of fibrillar adhesive microstructure, friction
and shear-related changes in pull-off force of a biomimetic polyvinylsiloxane mushroom …

Tangential loading in the presence of adhesion is highly relevant to biological locomotion,
but mixed-mode contact of biological materials or similar soft elastomers remains to be well …

Frictional behavior of hexagonal elastomeric surface texture mimicking the pattern evolved
in attachment pads of bush crickets has been investigated as a function of aspect ratio and …

The interaction between friction and adhesion is a defining factor of the macroscopic
behavior of natural and synthetic soft materials. In this work, the interfacial normal and shear …

To shed light on the role of suction in adhesion of microstructure with mushroom-shaped
terminal elements, we compared pull-off forces measured at different retraction velocities on …

The different mechanisms contributing to adhesion between two polymer surfaces are
summarized and described in individual examples, which represent either seminal works in …