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Biological
Adhesion
Overview
Nature has found, through billions of years of natural
evolution, many ingenious ways to produce materials with  superior
mechanical properties. It
would be a convenient and practical way for us to explore the existing
biological systems for the ideas of designing novel materials. The attention of my current study is mainly
focused on dry adhesion, a specific phenomenon observed in many animal
species in nature such as gecko, fly and insects. My research goal is to
reveal the adhesion mechanisms concealed in these superior biological
attachment systems, understanding of which, in turn, would provide guidelines
for the development of synthetic attachment devices or smart materials.
Recent Highlights
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Mechanics of robust and releasable adhesion in biology:
bottom-up designed hierarchical structures of gecko [PDF]
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Shape insensitive optimal adhesion of nanoscale
fibrillar structures [PDF]
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Related reports in
presses
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Science News June 26, 2004
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Max Planck Society Press C/2004(23)
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