Projektnummer

0052595

Zusammenfassung

Adhesive joining with molecular (van der Waals) interactions without glue is presently receiving much attention because of potential applications in transportation, medical, robotics and similar technologies. Research on how insects, spiders and geckos stick to surfaces, has inspired a new paradigm: It is now admitted by the adhesion scientific community that fibrillar surfaces with appropriate design can show much higher adhesion performance than flat surfaces. This principle has recently been verified experimentally by micropatterning of elastomeric surfaces on a laboratory scale. H...