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Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair

Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh, Wolfgang Zesch, Wai Pang Chan, Thomas W. Kenny, Ronald Fearing and Robert J. Full

Nature 405, 681-685(8 June 2000)

doi:10.1038/35015073

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Figure 1

Gecko setae and apparatus for force measurement.

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Force of single seta pulled parallel to the surface with a known perpendicular preload.

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Maximal force after a maximum preload (approx15 microN) of a single seta parallel to the surface as a function of time.

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Figure 4

Setal angle (alpha) with the surface at detachment as a function of perpendicular force.

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