Mass fabrication technique for polymeric replicas of arrays of insect corneas

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Pulsifer, Drew Patrick ^a,b   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a,b   Martín Palma, Raúl Jośe ^a,c   Pantano, Carlo G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-FIDELITY; LENGTH SCALE; MASS FABRICATION; POLYMER REPLICA; SPATIAL FEATURES; STRUCTURAL LAYERS; SURFACE FEATURE; THIN LAYERS;

NICKEL; STAMPING;

POLYMERS;

CALLIPHORIDAE; HEXAPODA;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; CORNEA; INSECT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; CORNEA; EYE, ARTIFICIAL; INSECTS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS;

EID: 77956742879     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/3/036001     Document Type: Article

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