The hydrophobicity of a lotus leaf: A nanomechanical and computational approach

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 30, 2009, Pages

  Balani, Kantesh ^a,b   Batista, Ruben Galiano ^b   Lahiri, Debrupa ^b   Agarwal, Arvind ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; LEAF SURFACES; LOTUS LEAF; MULTI-SCALE MICROSTRUCTURE; NON-WETTING; QUALITATIVE MODEL; QUASI-STATIC; WATER DROPLETS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRESSES; WETTING;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEAF SURFACE; LOTUS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG MODULUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY;

WATER;

ELASTIC MODULUS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LOTUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT LEAVES; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 67651229245     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/30/305707     Document Type: Article

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