Diversity of structure, morphology and wetting of plant surfaces

Soft Matter

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1943-1963

  Koch, Kerstin ^a,b   Bhushan, Bharat ^b   Barthlott, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMICAL CLEANING; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LINGUISTICS; SURFACE CLEANING; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACES;

BIO-MIMETIC; BIOLOGICAL SURFACES; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFERENT SIZES; FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; LAND PLANTS; LOTUS LEAVES; MICRO- AND NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE ADHESION; PHYSICO CHEMICALS; PLANT SURFACES; SELF-CLEANING PROPERTIES; SINGLE CELLS; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC; WAX CRYSTALS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; NELUMBO; NELUMBO NUCIFERA;

EID: 49449098251     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b804854a     Document Type: Article

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