Hornet silk caps maintain a clean room environment: A device for filtering out bacteria and dust particles

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 565-570

  Shabtai, Yossef ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clean room; Filtration; Gas filtration; Hornet; Hornet combs; Hornet larvae; Semi conductive device; Silk caps; Vespa orientalis

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EMBRYO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; SEMICONDUCTOR; SILK; WASP;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYMENOPTERA; VESPA ORIENTALIS; VESPIDAE; VESPINAE;

EID: 0031689797     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10067-3     Document Type: Article

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