Tribology in biology: Biomimetic studies across dimensions and across fields

International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-327

  Gebeshuber, I C ^a,b,c   Majlis, B Y ^a   Stachelberger, H ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROENGINEERING AND NANOELECTRONICS IMEN   (Malaysia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c AC2T RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^d Institute of Chemical Engineering   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Biotribology; Learning from nature; Multidisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949130182     PISSN: 18230334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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