Multiscale effects and capillary interactions in functional biomimetic surfaces for energy conversion and green engineering

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

Volumn 367, Issue 1893, 2009, Pages 1511-1539

  Nosonovsky, Michael ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Biomimetics; Self cleaning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BIOLOGICAL SURFACES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMIMETIC SURFACES; CAPILLARY EFFECTS; CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY INTERACTIONS; ENERGY TRANSITIONS; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; FISH SCALE; GREEN ENGINEERING; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INSTABILITY AND DISSIPATION; MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIUM; MULTISCALE; NANO SCALE; PLANT LEAVES; SCALE LENGTH; SELF-CLEANING; SMALL ROUGHNESS; SMALL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; TRANSITION MECHANISM;

BIOMIMETICS;

BIOMATERIAL; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ADHESION; ADSORPTION; ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY RESOURCE; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESIVENESS; ADSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT LEAVES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 65549135826     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0008     Document Type: Article

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