Prof. Dr. Stanislav Gorb
Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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23Years (2004-Present)
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View All Publications14 January 2009 in Advanced Materials
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MVMichael Varenberg
Michael VarenbergStanislav Gorb5 May 2010 in Soft Matter
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To provide an explanation of why most biological hairy adhesive systems involved in locomotion rely on spatulate structures, we have studied the contact formed between a smooth substrate and individual thin-film terminal elements of attachment pads evolved in insects, arachnids and reptiles. The data obtained were analyzed using the Kendall peeling model, which demonstrated that an animal’s attachment ability grows with an overall length of the peeling line, which is the sum of widths of all thin-film elements participating in contact. This robust principle is found to manifest itself across 8 orders of magnitude in an overall peeling line ranging from 64 micrometres for a red spider mite to 1.8 kilometres for a Tokay gecko, generalizing the critical role of terminal elements in biological fibrillar adhesion.
18 January 2017 in Science Robotics
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EKEmre Kizilkan
Emre KizilkanJSJan Strueben
Jan Strueben
Anne StaubitzStanislav GorbA transportation device can be tunably controlled by the ultraviolet actuation of a liquid crystal elastomer.
9 September 2015 in Journal of Anatomy
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EAEsther Appel
Esther AppelLHLars Heepe
Lars Heepe
CLChung‐Ping Lin
Chung‐Ping Lin
Stanislav Gorb15 September 2014 in Advanced Materials
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SHSeonki Hong
Seonki Hong
CSClemens F. Schaber
Clemens F. SchaberKDKirstin Dening
Kirstin Dening
EAEsther Appel
Esther Appel
Stanislav GorbHLHaeshin Lee
Haeshin Lee24 August 2012 in Advanced Materials
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XJXin Jin
Xin JinJSJan Strueben
Jan Strueben
LHLars Heepe
Lars Heepe
AKAlexander Kovalev
Alexander Kovalev
Yogendra MishraAnne Staubitz +2
About Me
Prof. Dr. Stanislav N. Gorb received his Master of Science from Kyiv State University (Ukraine) in biology—zoology of invertebrates in 1989. In 1991, he received his Ph.D. in biology—entomology from the Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine. From 1990 to 1994, he was a researcher at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine. From 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoc at the Institute of Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria. From 1996 to 1998, he carried out postdoc research at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany. From 1998 to 1999, he was an assistant at the Institute of Special Zoology and Evolutionary Biology of Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. Since 2008, he has been a group leader (Functional Morphology and Biomechanics) at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. In 2010, he was elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz, Germany. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the German
National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.