Wet but not slippery: Boundary friction in tree frog adhesive toe pads

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 689-697

  Federle, W ^a,b   Barnes, W J P ^c   Baumgartner, W ^d   Drechsler, P ^a,b   Smith, J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Biomechanics; Hylidae; Interference reflection microscopy; Microrheology

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FORCE; FROG; LASER; MICROSCOPY; MUCUS GLAND; NONHUMAN; TOE; TREE; VISCOMETRY;

HYLIDAE; LITORIA CAERULEA;

EID: 33750292167     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0135     Document Type: Article

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