Water-repellent legs of water striders

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7013, 2004, Pages 36-

  Gao, Xuefeng ^a,b   Jiang, Lei ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILANE DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER; WAX;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTACT ANGLE; CUTICLE; GERRIS REMIGIS; HEMIPTERA; HYDROPHOBICITY; INSECT; LEG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; WATER STRIDERS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HETEROPTERA; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY;

AQUARIUS REMIGIS; GERRIDAE; GERRIS; HEMIPTERA; INSECTA;

ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; HETEROPTERA; HYDROPHOBICITY; QUARTZ; SURFACE TENSION; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 19644400529     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/432036a     Document Type: Article

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