On the mechanism of adhesion in biological systems
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- 11 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 118 (16) , 7614-7621
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1562192
Abstract
I study adhesion relevant to biological systems, e.g., flies, crickets and lizards, where the adhesive microstructures consist of arrays of thin fibers. The effective elastic modulus of the fiber arrays can be very small which is of fundamental importance for adhesion on smooth and rough substrates. I study how the adhesion depend on the substrate roughness amplitude and apply the theoretical results to lizards. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.Keywords
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