Selective Adhesion

This page contains information related to the collaborative work with Los Alamos National Labs. It examines the ability for current generations of directional dry adhesives to selectively adhere to particles of certain size ranges.

• Wedges After Contamination:
  

• Wedges After Selective Transfer:
  

• SEM Image of Contaminated Wedges:
  

• SEM Image of Particle Deforming Wedges:
  

• SEM Image of Large Particle Resting on Tips of Wedges:
  

Data

• Selective_Adhesion_update_7_20_09.doc: First Data Set

• selective_adhesion_update_8_10_09.doc: Second Data Set

-- PaulDay - 17 Aug 2009

Relevant Publications

• Ron Fearing's page on self cleaning http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Gecko/selfcleaning.html

• Cone_Formation_on_Metal_Targets_during_Sputtering_1970.pdf: Cone Formation on Metal

• Formation_of_Ordered_Nanoscale_Semiconductor_Dots_by_Ion_Sputtering_1999.pdf: Ordered Nanoscale Dots

• Roughnes_Evolution_and_Pattern_formation_2000.pdf: Roughness Evolution and Pattern Formation

• Impurity-Driven_cone_Formation_During_Laser_Sputtering_of_Graphite.pdf: More Cone Formation

• Contaminated_Wedges_8_31_09.zip: ZIP File of all SEM Images taken on 8/31/09