Optics of spider "sticky" orb webs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7975, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kane, Deb M ^a   Staib, Gregory R ^a,b   Naidoo, Nishen ^a   Little, Douglas J ^a   Herberstein, Marie E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

birefringence; dispersion; micro lens; micro optics; refractive index; spider web optics; spider web silk; thin film

Indexed keywords

AFM; BIO-INSPIRATION; FILM EFFECTS; GEOMETRIC OPTICS; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; HIGH DISPERSION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; INSECT PREY; LASER LIGHT SCATTERING; MICRO-LENS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL COEFFICIENTS; OPTICAL SURFACES; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; SPIDER SILKS; SPIDER WEB; SPIDER WEB OPTICS; SPIDER WEB SILK; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; WHITE LIGHT;

BIOMIMETICS; BIREFRINGENCE; COLOR; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILK; THIN FILMS; USER INTERFACES;

LIGHT;

EID: 79956076011     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.880665     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (29)

1. nd Ed., Oxford University Press/ Georg Thieme Verlag, New York & Oxford (1996).
2. Opell, B.D., "Economics of Spider Orb-Webs: The Benefits of Producing Adhesive Capture Thread and of Recycling Silk", Functional Ecology, 12(4), 613-4 (1998).
3. Ashby, M. F., Gibson, L. J., Wegst, U. and Olive, R., "The Mechanical Properties of Natural Materials. I. Material Property Charts", Proc. Math. Phys. Sci. 450(1938), 123-140 (1995).
4. Heim, M., Keerl, D. and Scheibel, T., "Spider silk: from soluble protein to extraordinary fibre", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 3584-3596 (2009).
5. Kluge, J. A., Rabotyagova, O., Leisk, G. G. and Kaplan, D. L., "Spider silks and their applications", Trends in Biotechnology 26, 244-251 (2008).
6. Vollrath, F., "Biology of spider silk", Int. J. Biol. Macro. 24, 81-88 (1999).
7. Bruce M.J., Heiling, A.M. and Herberstein M.E., "Spider signals: are web decorations visible to birds and bees?", Biology Letters 1(3), 299-302 (2005).
8. Craig, C. L., "Insect perception of spider orb webs in three light habitats", Functional Ecology 2, 277-282 (1988).
9. Craig, C. L., Bernard, G. D. and Coddington, J. A., "Evolutionary shifts in the spectral properties of spider silks", Evolution 48, 287-296, (1994).
10. Zawischa, D., "Optical effects on spider webs", [accessed 15 Sept. 2009]; http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~zawischa/ITP/spiderweb.html.
11. Hable, J.W., "The source of colors in the orb-weaver spider web", MSc in Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Wisconsin, p. 41 (1986).
12. Greenler, R. G. and Hable, J. W, "Colors in spiders webs", American Scientist 77, 5-6 (1989).
13. Greenler, R. G., Hable, J. W. and Slane, P. O., "Diffraction around a fine wire: how good is the single-slit approximation?", Am. J. Phys. 58, 330-1 (1990).
14. Blackledge, T. A., Scharff, N., Coddington, J. A. , Szuts, T., Wenzeld, J. W., Hayashie, C. Y. , and Agnarssona, I., "Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era", PNAS 106(13), 5229-5234 (2009).
15. Vollrath, F., "Spider webs and silks", Scient. Am., 266(3), 72 (1992).
16. Kishore, A. I., Herberstein, M. E., Craig, C. L. and Separovic, F., "Solid-state NMR relaxation studies of Australian spider silks", Biopolymers 61, 287-297 (2002).
17. Townley M. A., Tillinghast E. H. and Neefus C. D. "Changes in composition of spider orb web sticky droplet compounds", J. Exp. Biol. 201, 1463-1486, (2006).
18. Sponner, A., Vater, W., Monajembashi, S., Unger, E., Grosse, F. and Weisshart, K., "Composition and Hierarchical Organisation of a Spider Silk", PLoS ONE 2(10): e998. doi:10.1371/journal.pone (2007).
19. Naidoo, N., Kane, D.M. and Birch, D., unpublished results.
20. Lee, R.L., "Mie Theory, Airy Theory, and the Natural Rainbow", Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1506-1519 (1998).
21. Kane, D. M., Staib, G. R. and Herberstein, M. E., in preparation for submission to Nature.
22. Kofler, J.,and Arnold, N., "Axially symmetric focusing of light in dry laser cleaning and nanopatterning", ch. 4 in [Laser Cleaning II], Ed. Kane, D. M., World Scientific, Singapore (2006).
23. Tajima, F., and Nishiyama, Y., "Light scattering from a birefringent cylinder, spider silk, slimmer than the wavelength approaches dipole radiation", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 1127-1131 (2005).
24. Tajima, F. and Nishiyama, Y., "Multiple scattering effect in the Young-like interference pattern of an optical wave scattered by a double cylinder", Optical Review 15, 75-83 (2008).
25. Carmichael, S. and Viney, C., "Molecular order in spider major ampullate silk (dragline): effects of spinning rate and post-spin drawing", J. Appl. Polymer Sci., 72, 895-903 (1999).
26. Little, D. J., and Kane, D. M., "Image contrast immersion method for measuring refractive index applied to spider silks", in preparation for submission to Opt. Exp.
27. Kane, D. M., Joyce, A. M., Staib, G. R. and Herberstein, M. E., "Optical surface profiling of orb-web spider capture silks", Bioinspir. Biomim. 5 036004, pp. 5, (2010).
28. Kane, D. M., Naidoo, N. and Staib, G. R., "AFM of orb-spider-web-silks to measure surface nanostructuring & evaluate silk fibers per strand", J. Appl. Phys. 108, 073509, pp.5, (2010).
29. Kane, D. M. , Staib, G. R., Naidoo, N., Joyce, A. M., Rabeau, J. R. and Herberstein, M. E., "Optical surface profilometry and AFM of spider web silks", pp. 3, accepted, Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICONN 2010, to be published by IEEE.