Bio-inspired adhesion control with liquids

Y Chen, Z Zhu, M Steinhart, SN Gorb - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Bio-inspired surfaces enabling wet adhesion management are of significant interest for
applications in the field of biomedicine, as components of bionic robots and as wearable …

Bio-inspired materials to control and minimise insect attachment

JB Bergmann, D Moatsou, U Steiner… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
More than three quarters of all animal species on Earth are insects, successfully inhabiting
most ecosystems on the planet. Due to their opulence, insects provide the backbone of …

[HTML][HTML] Parasitoid attachment ability and the host surface wettability

G Salerno, M Rebora, S Piersanti, E Gorb, S Gorb - Zoology, 2024 - Elsevier
Climbing animals such as geckos and arthropods developed astonishing adhesive
mechanisms which are fundamental for their survival and represent valuable models for …

Multi-technique investigation of a biomimetic insect tarsal adhesive fluid

JE Fowler, S Gorb, JE Baio - Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There is substantial motivation to develop novel adhesives which take advantage of the
superior adhesive strength and adaptability of many natural animal adhesives; however, the …

Entomology: a multitude of cross-disciplinary opportunities.

R Valkov - Phegea, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
A noteworthy feature of entomology is the opportunity for it to be practically integrated into
our lives. It stretches out over a wide spectrum of useful applications across many scientific …