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Underwater Dry Adhesives: Reversible Underwater Dry Adhesion of a Shape Memory Polymer (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 3/2019)
Author(s) -
Park Jun Kyu,
Eisenhaure Jeffrey D.,
Kim Seok
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials interfaces
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.671
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 2196-7350
DOI - 10.1002/admi.201970023
Subject(s) - adhesive , materials science , underwater , gecko , adhesion , composite material , polymer , nanotechnology , polymer science , layer (electronics) , oceanography , geology , ecology , biology
Synthetic reversible dry adhesives often inspired by gecko feet have been believed not to work on submerged surfaces. The shape memory polymer (SMP) adhesives presented in this work exhibit underwater yet dry adhesion reversibly. The cover art represents a gecko which adopts the SMP adhesive gloves for submerged wall climbing. More details can be found in the article number 1801542 by Jun Kyu Park, Jeffrey D. Eisenhaure, and Seok Kim.