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Bhushan, B., Sayer, R.A. (2007). Gecko Feet: Natural Attachment Systems for Smart Adhesion. In: Bhushan, B., Fuchs, H. (eds) Applied Scanning Probe Methods VII. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37321-6_2
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