Existence and role of large micropillars on the leaf surfaces of the president lotus

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 7715-7725

  Xiang, Mingming ^a   Wilhelm, Anderson ^a   Luo, Cheng ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROLINAS; LEAF SURFACES; MICRO-PILLARS; MICRO/NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOPILLARS; WATER DROP; WETTING PROPERTY;

EXPERIMENTS; WETTING;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; LOTUS; PLANT LEAF; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY;

LOTUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLANT LEAVES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84879512588     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la401193c     Document Type: Article

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