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ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 20, Pages 3905-+Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200801340
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- AFOSR
- The institute of Collaborative Biotechnologies
- National Science Foundation
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A synthetic, fully reversible, switchable, gecko-inspired adhesive is presented. The biomimetic system is composed of flexible nickel paddles coated with aligned vertical polymeric nanorods. When subjected to a magnetic field, adhesion decreases by a factor of 40. The ability of the adhesive to controllably stick and release from a surface could enable technologies from ubiquitous latching systems to climbing microrobotics.
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