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Fabrication of 3D Carbon Microelectromechanical Systems (C-MEMS)
Published on: June 17, 2017
Synthetic gecko foot-hairs from multiwalled carbon nanotubes
Betul Yurdumakan1, Nachiket R Raravikar, Pulickel M Ajayan
1Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
Abstract:
We report a fabrication process for constructing polymer surfaces with multiwalled carbon nanotube hairs, with strong nanometer-level adhesion forces that are 200 times higher than those observed for gecko foot-hairs.

