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Chem. Commun., 2005, 3799 - 3801, DOI: 10.1039/b506047h

Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Betul Yurdumakan, Nachiket R. Raravikar, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Ali Dhinojwala

We report a fabrication process for constructing polymer surfaces with multiwalled carbon nanotube hairs, with strong nanometer-level adhesion forces that are 200 times higher than those observed for gecko foot-hairs.

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