Highly Anisotropic Adhesive Film Made From Upside-Down, Flat, And Uniform Vertically Aligned Cnts

Keywords

anisotropic adhesion; high static friction; low adhesion; transfer process; vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

Abstract

We have created a multifunctional dry adhesive film with transferred vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VA-CNTs). This unique VA-CNT film was fabricated by a multistep transfer process, converting the flat and uniform bottom of VA-CNTs grown on atomically flat silicon wafer substrates into the top surface of an adhesive layer. Unlike as-grown VA-CNTs, which have a nonuniform surface, randomly entangled CNT arrays, and a weak interface between the CNTs and substrates, this transferred VA-CNT film shows an extremely high coefficient of static friction (COF) of up to 60 and a shear adhesion force 30 times higher (12 N/cm2) than that of the as-grown VA-CNTs under a very small preloading of 0.2 N/cm2. Moreover, a near-zero normal adhesion force was observed with 20 mN/cm2 preloading and a maximum 100-μm displacement in a piezo scanner, demonstrating ideal properties for an artificial gecko foot. Using this unique structural feature and anisotropic adhesion properties, we also demonstrate effective removal and assembly of nanoparticles into organized micrometer-scale circular and line patterns by a single brushing of this flat and uniform VA-CNT film.

Publication Date

12-14-2016

Publication Title

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volume

8

Issue

49

Number of Pages

34061-34067

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b10395

Socpus ID

85006283943 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85006283943

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS