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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dry adhesion"”.
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Integrating Smart Materials and Adhesion Mechanics for Soft Gripping Mechanisms
… in a cylindrical PDMS pillar can enhance the dry adhesion strength of the pillar to an opposing rigid surface significantly. Here, I investigate three different approaches to enhance the dry adhesion of soft gripping mechanisms integrating smart materials and adhesion mechanics. First, the …
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Shape memory polymer adhesive gripper for pick-and-place applications
… studied in term of their remarkable reversible dry adhesive properties and related smart adhesive applications. However, these exceptional properties of SMPs have not been exploited for pick-and-place applications, which would otherwise advance the robotic manipulation. This work explores the …
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Design and manufacturing of PDMS micro structures with dynamic inclination angle
… of surface phenomena such as liquid wetting and dry adhesion. This understanding led to a surge of design and fabrication of novel non- and directional wetting, self-cleaning, anti-biofouling and energy efficient surface textures. This work focuses on designing new dynamic surfaces that can …
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Synthetic Gecko Inspired Dry Adhesive Through Two-Photon Polymerization for Space Applications
… wedge-shaped designs, which could both maximize adhesion by shearing the micropillars toward the tilted direction when preload force is applied. The improved microstructure fabrication process could produce micropillars in the height of 270 μm with soft polymer without defects. However, the …
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Biomimetic adhesion for transfer printing via microstructured surfaces
… for this technology, beginning with a summary of adhesion – how different types of adhesion occur and what their applicability is, with a focus on dispersive, or van der Waals adhesion – followed by a discussion of the field of biomimetics and how the study of naturally occurring dry adhesion …
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Producing Data to Support the Detection and Understanding of Early On-Set Corrosion in Accelerated Weathering
… content (WEC), leaching behavior, wet and dry adhesion, and hardness before, during and after simplified environmental exposure, i.e., 5% NaCl H20 solution. In summary of the data, comparing all of the polymeric material results, the epoxy systems outperformed the urethanes with lower WVT …