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 …

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 …

Nature has demonstrated that surface patterns can control adhesion and release. For
example, the attachment devices of geckos [1, 2] and some insects [3, 4] are decorated with …

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 …

Following a recent bioinspired paradigm, patterned surfaces can exhibit better adhesion
than flat contacts. Previous studies have verified that finer contact structures give rise to …

Over the past decades, significant effort has been made to improve the adhesive properties
of adhesive pillars, by searching for pillar shapes with optimized interfacial stress …

It is well known that geometry of contact element is an extremely important factor affecting
adhesion. Comparing various biological adhesive systems, we find that mushroom-shaped …

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 …

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 …

Despite recent progress in bendable and stretchable thin-film transistors using novel
designs and materials, the development of conformal devices remains limited by the …