Biological attachment devices: Exploring nature's diversity for biomimetics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1870, 2008, Pages 1557-1574

  Gorb, Stanislav N ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Bioinspired surfaces; Biological attachment; Biomimetics; Contact mechanics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOINSPIRED SURFACES; BIOLOGICAL ATTACHMENT; CONTACT MECHANICS;

BIOMIMETICS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ADHESION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOLUTION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; ROBOTICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOLUTION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARASITES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; ROBOTICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 41249103077     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2172     Document Type: Article

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