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Betul Yurdumakan1, Nachiket R Raravikar, Pulickel M Ajayan

  • 1Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.

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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.

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