Previous work to develop a microfibrillar array to improve mask sealing performance demonstrated increased wet and dry adhesion on rigid and soft smooth substrates using spatulate fibers. The current effort modeled and characterized dry fibrillar adhesion to substrates that more closely approximate human skin. The models for adhesion to soft, textured substrates revealed that the resulting adhesion was simply a fraction of the adhesion to a smooth, rigid substrate. The ...
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