{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7"],"submitter":["Xu M"],"pubmed_abstract":["Conventional adhesives show a decrease in the adhesion force with increasing temperature due to thermally induced viscoelastic thinning and/or structural decomposition. Here, we report the counter-intuitive behaviour of carbon nanotube (CNT) dry adhesives that show a temperature-enhanced adhesion strength by over six-fold up to 143 N cm<sup>-2</sup> (4 mm × 4 mm), among the strongest pure CNT dry adhesives, over a temperature range from -196 to 1,000 °C. This unusual adhesion behaviour leads to temperature-enhanced electrical and thermal transports, enabling the CNT dry adhesive for efficient electrical and thermal management when being used as a conductive double-sided sticky tape. With its intrinsic thermal stability, our CNT adhesive sustains many temperature transition cycles over a wide operation temperature range. We discover that a 'nano-interlock' adhesion mechanism is responsible for the adhesion behaviour, which could be applied to the development of various dry CNT adhesives with novel features."],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pagination":["13450"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5116088"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Carbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range."],"pmcid":["PMC5116088"],"pubmed_authors":["Ganguli S","Xu M","Dai L","Du F","Roy A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Carbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range.","description":"Conventional adhesives show a decrease in the adhesion force with increasing temperature due to thermally induced viscoelastic thinning and/or structural decomposition. Here, we report the counter-intuitive behaviour of carbon nanotube (CNT) dry adhesives that show a temperature-enhanced adhesion strength by over six-fold up to 143 N cm<sup>-2</sup> (4 mm × 4 mm), among the strongest pure CNT dry adhesives, over a temperature range from -196 to 1,000 °C. This unusual adhesion behaviour leads to temperature-enhanced electrical and thermal transports, enabling the CNT dry adhesive for efficient electrical and thermal management when being used as a conductive double-sided sticky tape. With its intrinsic thermal stability, our CNT adhesive sustains many temperature transition cycles over a wide operation temperature range. We discover that a 'nano-interlock' adhesion mechanism is responsible for the adhesion behaviour, which could be applied to the development of various dry CNT adhesives with novel features.","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Nov","modification":"2025-04-25T19:18:20.734Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:29:22Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5116088","cross_references":{"pubmed":["27849052"],"doi":["10.1038/ncomms13450"]}}