van der Waals and hygroscopic forces of adhesion generated by spider capture threads

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3905-3911

  Hawthorn, Anya C ^a   Opell, Brent D ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Capillary adhesion; Cribellar thread; Hypochilus pococki; Hyptiotes cavatus; Spider thread

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ADHESION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPIDER; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED STATES; WETTABILITY;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; APPALACHIAN REGION; BIOMECHANICS; HUMIDITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEINS; SPIDERS; WETTABILITY;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; HYPOCHILUS; HYPOCHILUS POCOCKI; INSECTA;

EID: 0345446718     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00618     Document Type: Article

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