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Converting water adsorption and capillary condensation in useable forces with simple porous inorganic thin films
Mickael Boudot, Hervé Elettro, David Grosso
This work reports an innovative humidity driven actuation concept based on Bangham effect using simple nanoporous sol-gel silica thin films as humidity responsive materials. Bilaye…
Coiling of an elastic beam inside a disk: A model for spider-capture silk
Hervé Elettro, Fritz Vollrath, Sébastien Neukirch +1
Motivated by recent experimental observations of capillary-induced spooling of fibers inside droplets both in spider capture silk and in synthetic systems, we investigate the behav…
In-drop capillary spooling of spider capture thread inspires hybrid fibers with mixed solid-liquid mechanical properties
Hervé Elettro, Sébastien Neukirch, Fritz Vollrath +1
An essential element in the web-trap architecture, the capture silk spun by ecribellate orb spiders consists of glue droplets sitting astride a silk filament. Mechanically this thr…