Epidermis architecture and material properties of the skin of four snake species

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 76, 2012, Pages 3140-3155

  Klein, Marie Christin G ^a   Gorb, Stanislav N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective elastic modulus; Gradient materials; Nanoindentation; Reptilia; Wear resistance

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; NANOINDENTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WEAR RESISTANCE;

CROSS SECTION; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC MODULUS; GRADIENT MATERIALS; INNER LAYER; INNER SCALE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL SUBSTRATES; OUTER SCALE; OUTER SURFACE; REPTILIA;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; EPICRATES CENCHRIA CENCHRIA; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GONGYLOPHIS COLUBRINUS; HABITAT; HARDNESS; INNER SCALE LAYER; LAMPROPELTIS GETULA CALIFORNIAE; LOCOMOTION; MORELIA VIRIDIS; NANOINDENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTER SCALE LAYER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SNAKE; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84867459337     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0479     Document Type: Article

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