Bio-inspired Structured Adhesives

Biology.- Biological prototypes for bio-inspired adhesives.- Adhesion and friction in biological attachment systems.- Fabrication.- New routes for large-scale fabrication of bio-inspired adhesives Characterization.- Bridging the gap: from JKR-like to conformal adhesion testing.- Adhesion, Friction, and Contact Mechanics.- Adhesion scaling of mushroom-shaped adhesive elements.- Different failure types in the adhesion of bio-inspired adhesives.- Material, structural, and material property gradients in fibrillar adhesive systems.- Role of viscoelasticity in bio-inspired adhesives.- Friction of hexagonally patterned elastomeric films.- Switchability.- Pressure sensitive adhesion: switchable adhesion by curvature control of inflated elastic membranes.- Current strategies of switchable adhesion.- Applications.

Lars Heepe is a junior research group leader at the Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics at the Zoological Institute of Kiel University, Germany and guest scientist at the nanotechnology centre NanoSYD of the Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from The Jena University of Applied Sciences, Germany in 2008. In 2011 he received a M.S. in Scientific Instruments from same university. After that, he joined the Prof. Stanislav N. Gorb's group at Kiel University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 2014. In 2014 he was awarded with the Best Dissertation Award of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kiel University, Germany and in 2015 he received the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Science Award as well as the best dissertation award in the category "Nano Life Sciences" of the research focus Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science. He is member of the "Young Academy" of the Academy of the Science and Literature Mainz (2016). His research interests include adhesion, friction and contact mechanics of biological and biologically inspired attachment systems, the development of space-, time- and force-resolved in situ tribological characterization techniques, as well development of surfaces preventing marine biofouling.

Longjian Xue is Professor of Materials in School of Power and Mechanical Engineering at Wuhan University, China. He received B.S. degree in Chemistry from Wuhan University in 2004. After that, he was recommended for the admission of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics in 2010. After his short stay in Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany, he worked as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow with hosts of Prof. Martin Steinhart from Osnabrück University and Prof. Stanislav N. Gorb from Kiel University. He then joined Prof. Aránzazu del Campo's