Frictional characteristics of the beetle head-joint material

Wear

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 168-174

  Dai, Zhendong ^a,b   Min, Yu ^a   Gorb, Stanislav N ^b,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beetle head joint material; Frictional characteristics; Hydrophobicity

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; JOINTS (ANATOMY); SAPPHIRE; SPEECH;

BEETLE HEAD-JOINT MATERIALS; FRICTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS;

BIOMATERIALS;

FRICTION;

EID: 25144492754     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.12.042     Document Type: Article

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