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Integrative and Comparative Biology 2002 42(6):1123-1126; doi:10.1093/icb/42.6.1123
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Stickiness—Some Fundamentals of Adhesion1

Cyprien Gay2,1
1 Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, Av. Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France

We review some adhesion mechanisms that have been understood in the field of synthetic adhesives, and more precisely for adhesives that adhere instantaneously (a property named tackiness) and whose adhesive strength usually depends on the applied pressure (pressure-sensitive adhesives). The discussion includes effects of surface roughness, elasticity, cavitation, viscous and elastic fingering, substrate flexibility.


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