Mass production of bio-inspired structured surfaces

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 221, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1181-1191

  Abbott, S J ^a   Gaskell, P H ^b  

^a MacDermid Incorporated   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antireflection; Biomimetics; Drag reduction; Embossing; Gecko; Lotus effect; Microreplication; Motheye; Nanoreplication; Self cleaning; Sharkskin; Spiderman

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRODUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; MICROREPLICATION; NANOREPLICATION;

BIOMIMETICS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRODUCTION;

EID: 35748949277     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES540     Document Type: Article

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