Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Why have not the hairs on the feet of gecko been smaller?

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Yewang Su, Shijie He, and Keh-Chih Hwang et al.

The nanometer size of the tiny hair is the key to the secret of strong stickiness of gecko's feet, by which the hair can achieve the maximum adhesion strength that is insensitive to the interfacial flaws with substrate surface. But the question why the hairs have not been smaller is not answered y ... [Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 173106 (2012)] published Tue Oct 23, 2012.



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