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Liming Dai talks with
ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about
this month's Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Materials
Science. The author has also sent along images of
their work.
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Article Title: Gecko-foot-mimetic aligned
single-walled carbon nanotube dry adhesives with unique
electrical and thermal properties
Authors: Qu, L;Dai,
L
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Figures and descriptions:
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Figure 1:
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Figure 1: (Left)
A photo showing a stainless steel adapter
of 473 g hanging on a vertically-aligned
single-walled carbon nanotube film (4 mm
× 4 mm, Middle Top) dry
adhered onto a horizontally-placed glass
surface; (Right) a comparison of
the adhesion forces for microfabricated
vertically-aligned multiwalled carbon
nanotubes, polymer hairs, and the as-grown
vertically-aligned single-walled carbon
nanotubes. The dashed line represents the
adhesion force for gecko feet; and
(Middle Bottom) a side-top view
SEM image of the vertically-aligned
single-walled carbon nanotube film under a
high magnification.
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Figure 2:
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Figure 2: A photo showing
a stainless steel adapter of 473 g hanging
on a vertically-aligned single-walled
carbon nanotube film (4 mm × 4 mm)
dry adhered onto a horizontally-placed
glass surface.
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Figure 3:
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Figure 3: A photo showing
a stainless steel plate hanging on a
vertically-aligned single-walled carbon
nanotube film dry adhered onto a
vertically-placed glass surface with a
University of Dayton logo as the
background.
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