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Contact between rough surfaces and a criterion for macroscopic adhesion
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Significance: Macroscopic objects rarely stick together, yet the van der Waals interactions between surface atoms produce attractive pressures that are orders of magnitude larger than atmospheric pressure. This “adhesion paradox” has been linked to surface roughness, which reduces the area of intimate atomic contact to summits on the rough landscape. This paper presents a parameter-free theory that captures the interplay between elasticity, interatomic attraction, and surface roughness. It predicts how adhesion changes contact area and when surfaces are sticky. The results offer a simple explanation for why tape sticks to our desktops but a sheet of paper does not, and may aid in the design of adhesives and in engineering surface roughness to enhance or eliminate adhesion.
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- Authors
- Pastewka, L., & Robbins, M. O.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-02-18
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 3298-3303
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2066521582
- Cited by
- 326
- References
- 40
- FWCI
- 26.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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