AIMC Topic: Adhesives

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Versatile Adhesion-Based Gripping via an Unstructured Variable Stiffness Membrane.

Soft robotics
Reversible and variable dry adhesion is a promising approach for versatile robotic grasping. Variable stiffness materials with a modulus that can be tuned using an external stimulus offer a unique approach to realize dynamic control of adhesion. In t...

A Tissue Adhesion-Controllable and Biocompatible Small-Scale Hydrogel Adhesive Robot.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Recently, the realization of minimally invasive medical interventions on targeted tissues using wireless small-scale medical robots has received an increasing attention. For effective implementation, such robots should have a strong adhesion capabili...

Photo-Detachable Self-Cleaning Surfaces Inspired by Gecko Toepads.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Strong, reversible, and self-cleaning adhesion in the toe pads of geckos allow the lizards to climb on a variety of vertical and inverted surfaces, regardless of the surface conditions, whether hydrophobic or hydrophilic, smooth or tough, wet or dry,...

Detachment of the remora suckerfish disc: kinematics and a bio-inspired robotic model.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Remora suckerfish can attach to a wide diversity of marine hosts, however, their detachment mechanism remains poorly understood. Through analyzing high-speed videos, we found that the detachment of the live remora (Echeneis naucrates) is a rapid beha...

A stretchable, adhesive, and wearable hydrogel-based patches based on a bilayer PVA composite for online monitoring of sweat by artificial intelligence-assisted smartphones.

Talanta
Real-time monitoring of sweat using wearable devices faces challenges such as limited adhesion, mechanical flexibility, and accurate detection. In this work, we present a stretchable, adhesive, bilayer hydrogel-based patch designed for continuous mon...

Climbing robots in a sticky situation.

Science robotics
Mussel-inspired electro-responsive adhesive hydrogels enable robot climbing on conductive surfaces.