SBIR Phase I: Manufacturing of Bio-Inspired Polymer Micro/Nano-Fiber Arrays as New Gripping Materials

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在开发一种大批量，低成本的生物启发可重复聚合物纤维状粘合剂的纳米制造工艺，作为商业应用的新型抓握材料。 本论文将研究一种高速、连续、大面积制造具有顺应性背衬层的高纵横比三维聚合物微阵列的制造工艺。该项目的更广泛/商业影响将是为体育，国防，太空，机器人和其他行业的应用提供大容量和高均匀性的可重复纤维状粘合剂的潜力。 在这项研究中开发的过程和方法也将提高在高纵横比的聚合物结构的三维特征的纳米制造的理解。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a high-volume and low-cost nanomanufacturing process of biologically inspired repeatable polymer fibrillar adhesives as new gripping materials for commercial applications. A manufacturing process for high-speed, continuous, and large-area manufacturing of high aspect ratio and three-dimensional polymer micro/nanofiber arrays with a compliant backing layer will be studied. The broader/commercial impact of this project will be the potential to provide repeatable fibrillar adhesives with large volume and high uniformity for applications in sports, defense, space, robotics, and other industries. The processes and methods to be developed in this study would also improve the understanding in the nanomanufacturing of high aspect ratio polymer structures with three-dimensional features.