Nature-inspired adhesive systems

M Li, A Mao, Q Guan, E Saiz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Many organisms in nature thrive in intricate habitats through their unique bio-adhesive
surfaces, facilitating tasks such as capturing prey and reproduction. It's important to note that …

Bio-inspired switchable soft adhesion for the boost of adhesive surfaces and robotics applications: A brief review

W Duan, Z Yu, W Cui, Z Zhang, W Zhang… - Advances in colloid and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In nature, millions of creatures, such as geckos, tree frogs, octopuses, etc., have evolved
fantastic switchable adhesion capabilities to climb swiftly on vertical even inverted surfaces …

A smart patch with on‐demand detachable adhesion for bioelectronics

X Shi, P Wu - Small, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
A smart ionic skin patch with on‐demand detachable adhesion has been developed as
human–machine interface for physiological signal monitoring. In spite of the multifunctions …

Electrically programmable adhesive hydrogels for climbing robots

J Huang, Y Liu, Y Yang, Z Zhou, J Mao, T Wu, J Liu… - Science Robotics, 2021‏ - science.org
Although there have been notable advances in adhesive materials, the ability to program
attaching and detaching behavior in these materials remains a challenge. Here, we report a …

Sensing-triggered stiffness-tunable smart adhesives

D Wang, H Hu, S Li, H Tian, W Fan, X Li, X Chen… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Artificial dry adhesives have exhibited great potential in the field of robotics. However, there
is still a wide gap between bioinspired adhesives and living tissues, especially regarding the …

Elastic energy storage enabled magnetically actuated, octopus‐inspired smart adhesive

S Wang, H Luo, C Linghu, J Song - Advanced Functional …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Octopus suckers offer remarkable adhesion performance against nonporous surfaces and
have inspired extensive research to develop artificial adhesives. However, most of existing …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in biomimetic hemostatic materials

S Jiao, X Zhang, H Cai, S Wu, X Ou, G Han, J Zhao… - Materials Today Bio, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Although the past decade has witnessed unprecedented medical advances, achieving rapid
and effective hemostasis remains challenging. Uncontrolled bleeding and wound infections …

Bioinspired hierarchical structures for contact‐sensible adhesives

H Hu, D Wang, H Tian, Q Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired structural adhesives that are capable of bonding two objects together have
recently found widespread applications in industrial fields, because of their promising …

Gecko-like dry adhesive surfaces and their applications: a review

W Wang, Y Liu, Z **e - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2021‏ - Springer
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 …

Rapidly tunable and highly reversible bio-inspired dry adhesion for transfer printing in air and a vacuum

C Linghu, C Wang, N Cen, J Wu, Z Lai, J Song - Soft Matter, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Tunable and reversible dry adhesion has attracted much attention in academia and industry
due to its wide applications ranging from releasable joints to stamps for transfer printing …