Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes
- 5 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 30,p. 3799-3801
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b506047h
Abstract
We report a fabrication process for constructing polymer surfaces with multiwalled carbon nanotube hairs, with strong nanometer-level adhesion forces that are 200 times higher than those observed for gecko foot-hairs.Keywords
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