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Geckos rely on mechanical toe actions for adhesion detachment. Such an internal adhesion reversal mechanism is absent from synthetic gecko adhesives. We report a self-peeling reversible dry adhesive with a dry adhesive layer and a shape memory polymer layer, the latter of which introduces a thermal adhesion reversal mechanism.
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