(A) On the left are the hair shafts of the adhesive hairs closest to the exoskeleton.
Credit: B Poerschke, SN Gorb and F Schaber.
SEM images of the microstructure of the adhesive hairs (‘setae’).Credit: B Poerschke, SN Gorb and F Schaber.
Schaber, and his colleagues Bastian Poerschke and Stanislav Gorb, collected a sample of these hairs and then measured how well they stuck to a range of rough and smooth surfaces, including glass.
Credit: B Poerschke, SN Gorb and F Schaber.
Schaber, 11 June 2021, Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
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