Noshir S. Pesika

TL;DR: Both the adhesion and friction forces of geckos can be changed over three orders of magnitude, allowing for the swift attachment and detachment during gecko motion, and have obvious implications for the fabrication of dry adhesives and robotic systems inspired by the gecko's locomotion mechanism.

TL;DR: The surface forces apparatus (SFA) has been used for many years to measure the physical forces between surfaces, such as van der Waals (including Casimir) and electrostatic forces in vapors and liquids, adhesion and capillary forces, forces due to surface and liquid structure (e.g. solvation and hydration forces), polymer, steric and hydrophobic interactions, bio-specific interactions as well as friction and lubrication forces as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the shape of the absorbance edge for a suspension of semiconductor quantum particles is influenced both by the electronic transition and the distribution of band gaps in the system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that injection of octanethiol into suspensions of ZnO particles can be used to quench particle growth and demonstrate that octanthethiol is adsorbed sufficiently strongly to quench growth but can be easily removed for subsequent surface functionalization.

TL;DR: In this article, a tape-peeling model based on the geometry of the peel zone (PZ) is derived to predict the peeling behavior of adhesive tapes at peel angles less than or equal to 90°.