Optical surface profiling of orb-web spider capture silks

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kane, D M ^a   Joyce, A M ^a   Joyce, G R ^a   Joyce, M E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; AQUEOUS LAYER; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; MECHANICAL DEVICE; OPTICAL SURFACES; SPIDER SILKS; VISUAL DETECTION;

DROPS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

SILK;

ARANEAE; ARGIOPE KEYSERLINGI; HEXAPODA; HYPERICUM HYPERICOIDES SUBSP. HYPERICOIDES;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FEMALE; OPTICS; SILK; SPIDER; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILK; SPIDERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77956786730     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/3/036004     Document Type: Article

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