Rapid and continuous regulating adhesion strength by mechanical micro-vibration

Controlled tuning of surface adhesion is crucial to a broad range of applications. By simply introducing a mechanical micro-vibration, Shui et al. discover that the surface adhesion can be either enhanced by orders of magnitude or weakened to zero with a switching rate at millisecond timescale.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Langquan Shui, Laibing Jia, Hangbo Li, Jiaojiao Guo, Ziyu Guo, Yilun Liu, Ze Liu, Xi Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15447-x