Influence of cuticle nanostructuring on the wetting behaviour/states on cicada wings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Mingxia ^a   Liang, Aiping ^a   Watson, Gregory S ^b   Watson, Jolanta A ^b   Zheng, Yongmei ^c   Ju, Jie ^d   Jiang, Lei ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AOLA BINDUSARA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOTYMPANA ATRATA; INSECT; LEPTOPSALTA BIFUSCATA; MEIMUNA OPALIFER; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECIES COMPARISON; WATER ABSORPTION; WETTABILITY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; FORELIMB; HEMIPTERA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

WATER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HEMIPTERA; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER; WETTABILITY; WING;

EID: 84859983450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035056     Document Type: Article

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