The remarkable ability of geckos to climb and run rapidly on walls and ceilings has recently
received considerable interest from many researchers. Significant progress has been made …

The ability of gecko lizards to adhere to a vertical solid surface comes from their remarkable
feet with aligned microscopic elastic hairs. By using carbon nanotube arrays that are …

High dry friction requires intimate contact between two surfaces and is generally obtained
using soft materials with an elastic modulus less than 10 MPa. We demonstrate that high …

Based on the structural and experimental studies of more than 300 insect species from
different lineages, we have developed and characterized a bioinspired polymer material …

Natural gecko toes covered by nanomicro structures can repeatedly adhere to surfaces
without collecting dirt. Inspired by geckos, we fabricated a high-aspect-ratio fibrillar adhesive …

Gecko-inspired microfibre arrays with 42 million polypropylene fibres cm− 2 (each fibre with
elastic modulus 1 GPa, length 20 μm and diameter 0.6 μm) were fabricated and tested under …

Slanted polymer nanohairs possess a number of attractive properties in terms of anisotropic
wetting and directional adhesion. This highlight provides an overview of the recent progress …

The gecko has inspired numerous synthetic adhesive structures, yet under shear loading
conditions, general design criteria remains underdeveloped. To provide guidance for bio …

Leaf beetles are able to climb on smooth and rough surfaces using arrays of micron-sized
adhesive hairs (setae) of varying morphology. We report the first in vivo adhesive force …

A gecko's superb ability to adhere to surfaces is widely credited to the large attachment area
of the hierarchical and fibrillar structure on its feet. The combination of these two features …