Super water-repellent surfaces with fractal structures and their potential application to biological studies

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 284-285, Issue , 2006, Pages 490-494

  Yan, Hu ^a   Shiga, Hatsuki ^a   Ito, Etsuro ^a   Nakagaki, Toshiyuki ^a   Takagi, Seiji ^a   Ueda, Tetsuo ^a   Tsujii, Kaoru ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Cell culture; Electrochemical polymerization; Fractal structure; Physarum polycephalum; Super water repellency; Wettability

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DIMERS; ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION; FRACTALS; OLEFINS; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; WETTING;

ASTROCYTES; FRACTAL STRUCTURE; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; SUPER WATER-REPELLENCY;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

ALLOY; KETENE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLID; SURFACE PROPERTY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 33744920842     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.10.083     Document Type: Article

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