support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52375224 and 51875566);A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
The enhancement of adhesive perception is crucial to maintaining a stable and comfortable grip of the skin-touch products.To study the tactile perception of adhesive surfaces,subjective evaluation,skin friction and vi...
supported by the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures(1005-IZD23002-25);the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant nos.52075248.
In-pipe robots have been widely used in pipes-with smooth inner walls.However,current in-pipe robots face challenges in terms of moving past obstacles and climbing in marine-vessel pipeline systems,which are affected ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China[No.51975586,11972375];Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation[No.ZR2019QA010,ZR202011050038].
There are significant advantages to investigate underwater attachments,which would be valuable in providing inspirations and design strategies for multi-functional surfaces and underwater robots.Here,an abalone-inspir...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51505217,51435008,and 51705247);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.1011/56XAA19014).
The effect of contact electrification on adhesion has been debated in recent years for gecko and bio-inspired dry adhesion material.To understand the fundamentals of this issue for Carbon Nanotube(CNT)dry adhesives,co...
supported by the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[Grant number 91848202];supported by the Self-Planned Task of State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System(HIT)[Grant number SKLRS202106B].
Gecko has the ability to climb flexibly on various natural surfaces because of its fine layered adhesion system of foot,which has motivated researchers to carry out a lot of researches on it.Significant progresses hav...
The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51605220);Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation(No.BK20160793);the High Level Introduction of Talent Research Start-up Fund in NUAA(No.1011-YAH16010)。
Various bio-inspired dry adhesive materials have been investigated.In this work,lithography and silicon deep etching method were used to fabricate bio-inspired micro-pillar dry adhesive materials of which the paramete...
This study is supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2012CB933602), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51372210), Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20130184110023), the Basic Research Foundation Key Project of Sichuan Province (Grant No. 2016JY0011), The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2682016YXZT11), and Basic Research Foundation of Leshan (2017).
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the contents of modified 3, 4-dihydroxyphenyl-L-alanine (DOPA), named as do- pamine methacrylamide (DMA), on the adhesion of mussel-inspired adhesives in air a...
This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51605220, U1637101, 51435008), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20160793), the High Level Introduction of Talent Research Start-up Fund in NUAA (Grant No. 1011-YAH16010), and Open Project Fund in Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Interventional Medical Devices (Grant No. jr1601). The authors would very much like to thank Professor Stanislav N. Gorb in the Department of Functional Morphology and Biome- chanics in the Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel, Germany, for his help with the mushroom-shapeddry adhesives, and also thank Dr. Yajun Xue and Miss Yan Ding for help with the SEM observations.
An advanced electro-active dry adhesive, which was composed of a mushroom-shaped tibrillar dry adhesive array actuated by an Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) artificial muscle reinforced with nitrogen-doped carb...
Dry adhesives inspired from climbing animals, such as geckos and spiders, rely on van der Waals forces to attach to the opposing surface. Biological fibrillar dry adhesives have a hierarchical structure closely resemb...
Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Mr Y. J. Xue for his help with the SEM measurements, Miss H. H. Zhao for her help in fabricating the graphene sheets, and Mr. X. D Sun for his help in measuring the elastic moduli of tile NPWC and NPWOC materials. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51175251, 51275237 and 61161120323), by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK2011734), by the Funding for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in NUAA (Grant No. BCXJ11-06), by the Funding of Jiangsu Innovation Program for Graduate Education (Grant No. CXLX11_0178), and by the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities.
Materials with appropriate adhesive properties are suitable for the fabrication of bionic adhesive pads. In this study, a novel polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) material enhanced with two types of crosslinkers, carbon na...