Bio-inspired hierarchical polymer fiber-carbon nanotube adhesives
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 28135257
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/adma.201304601
- Title of journal
- Advanced Materials
- Article number
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- First page
- 1456
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 0935-9648
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- In this study, hierarchically engineered structures based on polymer and carbon nanotubes demonstrate a viable approach for the design of biomimetic fibrillar adhesives, which in turn enable enhanced conformal attachment to rough surface topographies. Initially funded by the BBSRC (BB/I008667/1), these novel biomimetic platforms, which aimed to impact the micromanipulation in production processes, microelectronics, robotics and biomedicine, led to business collaboration funding (as PI) from BAE-Systems and invited talks at the ‘Nature Inspires Creative Engineers’ (e-MRS) conference (2018) and the International Conference on Engineering and Technology (SaMu), Gothenburg (2017).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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