Underwater locomotion in a terrestrial beetle: Combination of surface de-wetting and capillary forces

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1745, 2012, Pages 4236-4242

  Hosoda, Naoe ^a   Gorb, Stanislav N ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Beetle; Biomimetics; Bubble; De wetting; Under water

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BEETLE; BIOMETRY; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LOCOMOTION; POLYMER; SILICON; SUBSTRATE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

COLEOPTERA; GASTROPHYSA VIRIDULA;

EID: 84866104466     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1297     Document Type: Article

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