Humans have a myriad of sensory receptors in different sense organs that form the five
traditionally recognized senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. These receptors …

The amazing adhesion of gecko pads to almost any kind of surfaces has inspired a very
active research direction over the last decade: the investigation of how geckos achieve this …

The design of smart surfaces with switchable adhesive properties in a wet environment has
remained a challenge in adhesion science and materials engineering. Despite intense …

Adhesives are typically either strong and permanent or reversible with limited strength.
However, current strategies to create strong yet reversible adhesives needed for wearable …

Here we propose a concept of conductive dry adhesives (CDA) combining a gecko-inspired
hierarchical structure and an elastomeric carbon nanocomposite. To complement the poor …

For adhering to three-dimensional (3D) surfaces or objects, current adhesion systems are
limited by a fundamental trade-off between 3D surface conformability and high adhesion …

Functional integration is an inherent characteristic for multiscale structures of biological
materials. In this contribution, we first investigate the liquid–solid adhesive forces between …

Adhesives are ubiquitous in daily life and industrial applications. They usually fall into one of
two classes: strong but irreversible (eg, superglues) or reversible/reusable but weak (eg …

Multiscale, hierarchically patterned surfaces, such as lotus leaves, butterfly wings, adhesion
pads of gecko lizards are abundantly found in nature, where microstructures are usually …

Over millions of years, biological subjects have been in continuous combat with extreme
environmental conditions. The fittest have survived through continuous evolution, an …