Friction ridges in cockroach climbing pads: Anisotropy of shear stress measured on transparent, microstructured substrates

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 195, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 805-814

  Clemente, Christofer J ^a   Dirks, Jan Henning ^a   Barbero, David R ^b   Steiner, Ullrich ^b,c   Federle, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Biomechanics; Direction dependence; Lithography; Tribology

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADHESION; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; COCKROACH; FRICTION; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; COCKROACHES; EXTREMITIES; FRICTION; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 69849107196     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0457-0     Document Type: Article

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