Seok Kim email: seokk (AT) andrew.cmu.edu Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering M.S. in Mechanical Engineering - UCLA 2004 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering - POSTECH in Korea 2000 "An iron hand in a velvet glove" Research Projects Synthetic Gecko Inspired Adhesive Nanofibers CV pdf Publications Journals 1. R. Long, C.-Y. Hui, S. Kim, and M. Sitti, "Modeling the Soft Backing Layer Thickness Effect on Adhesion of Elastic Microfiber Arrays," Journal of Applied Physics, 2008, in press. 2. S. Kim, B. Aksak, and M. Sitti, "Enhanced friction of elastomer microfiber adhesives with spatulate tips," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, pp. 221913, 2007. 3. S. Kim, M. Sitti, C.-Y. Hui, and R. Long, A. Jagota, "Effect of backing layer thickness on adhesion of single-level elastomer fiber arrays," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, pp. 161905, 2007. 4. S. Kim and M. Sitti, "Biologically inspired polymer microfibers with spatulate tips as repeatable fibrillar adhesives," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, pp. 261911, 2006. (Selected among Core 15 Papers for Thomson Scientific's Fast Moving Front Map of Materials Science, Jan. 2008) Proceedings 1. S. Kim, J.-H. Jang, M. Sitti, and E. Thomas, "Fabrication of gecko foot inspired elastomer nanofibers with spatulate tips," IEEE Nanotechnology, 2008, to appear. 2. S. Kim and M. Sitti, "Fabrication and characterization of biologically inspired mushroom-shaped elastomer microfiber arrays," ASME IDETC Micro/Nano Systems, 2008, to appear. 3. S. Kim and M. Sitti, "Fabrication and characterization of biologically Inspired microfiber arrays with spatulate tips," International Conference on Micromanufacturing, 2008, to appear. Patent Applications 1. "Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives". U.S. Patent Application of M. Sitti and S. Kim, filed, 2008.