Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive Structures with Smooth Contour via Electrical Growth (2025)

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    • Yingze Li

      Yingze Li

      Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

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      Bo Sun

      Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

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      Miao Li

      Caihong Display Devices Company Limited, Xianyang, Shaanxi 712000, China

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    • Hongmiao Tian*

      Hongmiao Tian

      Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

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      Jian Xu

      Caihong Display Devices Company Limited, Xianyang, Shaanxi 712000, China

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      Zhijun Zhang

      Caihong Display Devices Company Limited, Xianyang, Shaanxi 712000, China

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      Dongning Gao

      Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

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      Wenjun Li

      Caihong Display Devices Company Limited, Xianyang, Shaanxi 712000, China

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      Hongjian Yan

      Caihong Display Devices Company Limited, Xianyang, Shaanxi 712000, China

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      CAIHONG (HEFEI) LCD GLASS CO.,LTD, Hefei, Anhui 230012, China

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    • Jinyou Shao

      Jinyou Shao

      Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

      Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

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    Mushroom-Shaped Adhesive Structures with Smooth Contour via Electrical Growth (3)

    Bioinspired dry adhesives based on van der Waals forces have a wide range of impact in space operations, robot manipulation, and other fields. Previous studies have confirmed the significant advantages of a mushroom-shaped structure in uniformly distributing the separation stress. However, most of them are based on the structure with an abrupt geometric contour and have neglected the effect of a smooth contour on the contact process. Here, we analyze the effect mechanism of geometric contours on the contact-separation behavior of mushroom-shaped adhesive structures by finite element analysis and investigate the enhancement of smooth contours on the adhesive properties of mushroom-shaped structures. On this basis, we propose a one-step forming strategy inspired by the growth mechanism of biological adhesive structures to obtain mushroom-shaped structures with smooth contours by flow forming. The mushroom-shaped structures with smooth contours exhibit more excellent adhesive performance than those with mutant contours in the adhesion test, which verifies the correctness of our proposed law of geometric contours’ influence on adhesive behavior, providing a new idea for the design of dry adhesives and dry adhesive-based systems.

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