TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorb,Stanislav N.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Functional Surfaces in Biology: Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2 
SN  - 9781402066955
U1  - 570 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - LIFE SCIENCES
KW  - BOTANY
KW  - PHYSICS
KW  - ENGINEERING
KW  - LIFE SCIENCES, GENERAL
KW  - ENGINEERING, GENERAL
KW  - PHYSICS, GENERAL
KW  - PLANT SCIENCES
N1  - Adhesion Enhancement and Reduction in Biological Surfaces -- Adhesion Enhancement -- The Echinoderm Tube Foot and its Role in Temporary Underwater Adhesion -- Mechanisms and Principles Underlying Temporary Adhesion, Surface Exploration and Settlement Site Selection by Barnacle Cyprids: A Short Review -- Alternative Tasks of the Insect Arolium with Special Reference to Hymenoptera -- Organs of Adhesion in Some Mountain-stream Teleosts of India: Structure-Function Relationship -- Surface Characteristics of Locomotor Substrata and Their Relationship to Gekkonid Adhesion: A Case Study of Rhoptropus cf biporosus -- Adhesion Reduction -- Variable Attachment to Plant Surface Waxes by Predatory Insects -- The Waxy Surface in Nepenthes Pitcher Plants: Variability, Adaptive Significance and Developmental Evolution -- Functional Surfaces in the Pitcher of the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata: A Cryo-Sem Approach
N2  - This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular function(s). This volume, written by a team of specialists from different disciplines, covers various surface functions such as protection, defense, water transport, anti-wetting, self cleaning, light reflection and scattering, and acoustics. Because biological surfaces have a virtually endless potential of technological ideas for the development of new materials and systems, inspirations from biology could also be interesting for a broad range of topics in surface engineering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6695-5
ER  -