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Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces

  • Ming Zhou1,
  • Noshir Pesika2,
  • Hongbo Zeng3,
  • Yu Tian1 &
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  • Jacob Israelachvili4 

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Abstract

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 in understanding the attachment and detachment mechanisms and the fabrication of articulated gecko-inspired adhesives and structured surfaces. This article reviews the direct experiments that have investigated the properties of gecko hierarchical structures, i.e., the feet, toes, setae, and spatulae, and the corresponding models to ascertain the mechanical principles involved. Included in this review are reports on gecko-inspired surfaces and structures with strong adhesion forces, high ratios of adhesion and friction forces, anisotropic hierarchical structures that give rise to directional adhesion and friction, and “intelligent” attachment and detachment motions.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

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  2. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA

    Noshir Pesika

  3. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2V4, Canada

    Hongbo Zeng

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 93106, USA

    Jacob Israelachvili

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Yu TIAN, born 1975, is the Professor and Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Tribology at Tsinghua University in China. Tian gained his BA and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Then he became a faculty of the State Key Laboratory of Tribology at Tsinghua University. He did his postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Professor Jacob Israelachvili (from 2005 to 2007). He has been a visiting associate professor at Nanyang Technology University for five months. His research interest is the science and technology at the interface of physics, materials, engineering and biology to understand the physical laws of adhesion, friction and rheology. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has received the Wen Shizhu-Maple Award-Young Scholar award (2012), the Young Scholar Achievement Award of the Society of Mechanical Engineering of China (2011), Outstanding Young Scholar Award of the Chinese Tribology Institute (2009), and the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (2004).

Ming ZHOU, graduated in 2007 from Tsinghua University, and received her PhD degree in 2013 from the SKLT, Tsinghua University. Now she is working as an engineer in the Institute of Mechanical Manufacturing Technology, China Academy of Engineering Physics. She has published 9 papers. Her research interests include the mechanism and application of gecko adhesion and the gecko-inspired surfaces, nano contact mechanics, nano-tribology, and more recently, the techniques and mechanisms of ultra-precision machining.

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Zhou, M., Pesika, N., Zeng, H. et al. Recent advances in gecko adhesion and friction mechanisms and development of gecko-inspired dry adhesive surfaces. Friction 1, 114–129 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-013-0011-5

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Keywords

  • gecko feet surfaces
  • setae
  • spatulae
  • anisotropic dry adhesion and friction
  • articulated motion
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