... the manuscript, and R.S.F. and R.J.F. drafted and revised the manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 6 6 2013 19 9 2013 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Gecko Adhesion Friction Tribology Contact mechanics...

... tribology plant–insect interaction carnivorous plants attachment focused ion beam atomic force microscopy Plants of the carnivorous genus Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae) efficiently attract, trap, retain and finally digest animal prey in highly modified leaves ( Juniper et al., 1989 ). Within...

... tribology Many insects, spiders and lizards employ a fibrillar system of adhesion,consisting of dense arrays of microscopic adhesive setae. In insects alone,hairy adhesives have evolved at least three times independently( Beutel and Gorb, 2001 ) and the fibrillar morphology appears to represent...

... that are the envy of materials scientists – and partly because the application of recent advances in both cell biology and engineering (tribology) has produced a quantum leap forward in our understanding of these systems( Scherge and Gorb, 2001 ; Barnes, 2006 ). The reversible adhesion of locomoting animals...

... of individual setae. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 19 8 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 adhesion biomechanics direction-dependence locomotion tribology Many arthropods and vertebrates possess tarsal attachment systems, which...

...-mail: [email protected] ) * Both authors contributed equally to this work 6 8 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 friction coefficient sliding static sound bioacoustics lobsters Palinuridae Panulirus interruptus stick slip tribology Stick–slip...

... in climbing geckos that does not depend on toe peeling. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 11 8 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 gecko adhesion friction tribology contact mechanics biomechanics robotic Tokay gecko feet have five...