The dream of staying clean: Lotus and biomimetic surfaces

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Solga, Andreas ^a   Cerman, Zdenek ^a   Striffler, Boris F ^a   Spaeth, Manuel ^a   Barthlott, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURFACES; ENGINEERED MATERIALS; LOW ENERGY SURFACES; SELF-CLEANING PROPERTIES; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; UNDERWATER APPLICATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; CLEANING; HYDROPHOBICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SURFACES;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; DETERGENT; SURFACTANT;

CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; LOTUS; PLANT LEAF; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; DETERGENTS; LOTUS; PLANT LEAVES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36549035273     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/2/4/S02     Document Type: Conference Paper

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