Carbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range

Adhesives typically lose adhesion strength at high temperatures. Here, the authors design a carbon nanotube dry adhesive that becomes stronger with rising temperature, and ascribe this counterintuitive behavior to a thermally-induced nanoscale interlocking mechanism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ming Xu, Feng Du, Sabyasachi Ganguli, Ajit Roy, Liming Dai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13450