Subdigital setae of chameleon feet: Friction-enhancing microstructures for a wide range of substrate roughness

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Spinner, Marlene ^a,b   Westhoff, Guido ^b,c   Gorb, Stanislav N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Tierpark Hagenbeck gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; FRICTION; LIMB; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; EXTREMITIES; FRICTION; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84903625212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05481     Document Type: Article

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