Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives

2015

Patent

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Dry adhesives and methods for forming dry adhesives. A method of forming a dry adhesive structure on a substrate, comprises: forming a template backing layer of energy sensitive material on the substrate; forming a template layer of energy sensitive material on the template backing layer; exposing the template layer to a predetermined pattern of energy; removing a portion of the template layer related to the predetermined pattern of energy, and leaving a template structure formed from energy sensitive material and connected to the substrate via the template backing layer.

@patent{sitti2015dry,
  title = {Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives},
  author = {Sitti, Metin and Murphy, Michael and Aksak, Burak},
  month = mar,
  year = {2015},
  note = {US Patent App. 14/625,162},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {3}
}