Pull-off and friction forces of micropatterned elastomers on soft substrates: the effects of pattern length scale and stiffness

• Peter van Assenbergh,
• Marike Fokker,
• Julian Langowski,
• Jan van Esch,
• Marleen Kamperman and
• Dimitra Dodou

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 79–94, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.8

• substrate between the dimples. Keywords: adhesion; biomimetic micropatterned adhesive; colloidal lithography; friction; pull-off; soft substrate; Introduction Pull-off and friction forces of micropatterned adhesives as a function of geometry, feature size, and stiffness Over the last few decades