Insect wet steps: Loss of fluid from insect feet adhering to a substrate

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 78, 2013, Pages

  Kovalev, Alexander E ^a   Filippov, Alexander E ^b   Gorb, Stanislav N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Capillary adhesion; Fluid loss; Insects; Roughness

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ASPECT RATIO; FLOW OF FLUIDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADHESION FORCES; ADHESIVE PADS; CAPILLARY ADHESION; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT FORMATION; FLUID ABSORPTION; FLUID LOSS; INSECTS; NANO-POROUS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ROUGH SUBSTRATES; ROUGH SURFACES; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; ROYAL SOCIETY; SOLID SUBSTRATES; SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE; WET ADHESIVES;

SUBSTRATES;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DENSITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLUID FLOW; INSECT; MUCOADHESION; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; SOLID; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ADHESION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY FLUID; DIPTERA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BODY FLUIDS; DIPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84871269017     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0639     Document Type: Article

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