Print Email Facebook Twitter Anisotropic Stiffness Adhesives for High Shear Forces on Soft Substrates Title Anisotropic Stiffness Adhesives for High Shear Forces on Soft Substrates Author van Assenbergh, S.P. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) Haring, Frank (Student TU Delft) Dijksman, Joshua A. (Wageningen University & Research) Dodou, D. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) Date 2020 Abstract Reversible attachment on soft substrates is useful in a range of applications, including soft robotics and soft-tissue surgical instrumentation. On rigid substrates, the use of micropatterned adhesives has been extensively explored. It has been shown that surface micropatterns provide conformability, thereby enabling the formation and preservation of contact with the substrate. On soft, deformable substrates, on the other hand, surface micropatterns largely lose their functionality. Alternative mechanisms have to be explored to maximize conformability and thus formation and preservation of contact on soft substrates. 3D-printing is used to fabricate adhesives with internal cylindrical pores of various configurations leading to different combinations of high/low normal/shearing stiffness, and shear forces are measured on glass and on soft elastomeric substrates. On the glass substrate, shear forces are highest for the adhesives with the lowest normal stiffness, independently from their shear stiffness. On the soft substrates, the highest shear forces are achieved for the adhesives combining low normal stiffness, enabling contact formation, with high shear stiffness, promoting contact preservation. The beneficial effect of such anisotropic stiffness on shear forces increased with the deformability of the substrate. Subject 3D-printinganisotropic adhesivesshear forcessoft substrates To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9e45da77-c3d0-48db-b6fb-e79acd2520a4 DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202001173 Source Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7 (22) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 S.P. van Assenbergh, Frank Haring, Joshua A. Dijksman, D. Dodou Files PDF admi.202001173.pdf 1.92 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9e45da77-c3d0-48db-b6fb-e79acd2520a4/datastream/OBJ/view