Issue 30, 2005
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Chemical Communications

Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Betul Yurdumakan,a   Nachiket R. Raravikar,b   Pulickel M. Ajayanb  and  Ali Dhinojwala*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, USA
E-mail: ali4@uakron.edu

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

Abstract

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.

Graphical abstract: Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B506047H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Apr 2005
Accepted
17 Jun 2005
First published
05 Jul 2005

Chem. Commun., 2005, 3799-3801

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Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes

B. Yurdumakan, N. R. Raravikar, P. M. Ajayan and A. Dhinojwala, Chem. Commun., 2005, 3799 DOI: 10.1039/B506047H

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