Water repellence in Gecko skin: How do geckos keep clean?

Functional Surfaces in Biology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 47-53

  Hiller, Uwe N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6697-9_4     Document Type: Chapter

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