Tilted cellulose arrangement as a novel mechanism for hygroscopic coiling in the stork's bill awn

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 69, 2012, Pages 640-647

  Abraham, Yael ^a,b   Tamburu, Carmen ^a   Klein, Eugenia ^c   Dunlop, John W C ^b   Fratzl, Peter ^b   Raviv, Uri ^a   Elbaum, Rivka ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cellulose; Coiling; Erodium; Hygroscopic movement; Microfibril angle; Small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CELLULOSE; CYTOLOGY; TISSUE;

COILING; ERODIUM; HYGROSCOPIC MOVEMENT; MICROFIBRIL ANGLES; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

DRIERS (MATERIALS);

CELLULOSE;

AWN; CELL WALL; ERODIUM GRUINUM; FIBER; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT CELL; PLANT SEED; PLANT STRUCTURES; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WETTABILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ERODIUM;

EID: 84859402648     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0395     Document Type: Review

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