Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) Properties of Hornet Cuticle as Dependent on Relative Humidity

Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-66

  Sverdlov, Anna ^a   Litinetsky, Luba ^a   Pertsis, Vitaly ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DARKNESS; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; MEMBRANE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE; WASP;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANES; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; TEMPERATURE; WASPS;

VESPA ORIENTALIS;

EID: 0007810686     PISSN: 07486642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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