Micro- and nano-structural details of a spider's filter for substrate vibrations: Relevance for low-frequency signal transmission

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 104, 2015, Pages

  Erko, Maxim ^a   Younes Metzler, Osnat ^a   Rack, Alexander ^b   Zaslansky, Paul ^c   Young, Seth L ^d   Milliron, Garrett ^a   Chyasnavichyus, Marius ^d   Barth, Friedrich G ^e   Fratzl, Peter ^a   Tsukruk, Vladimir ^d   Zlotnikov, Igor ^a   Politi, Yael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chitin; Mechanosensing; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHITIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTICITY; X RAY SCATTERING;

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; MECHANOSENSING; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; SPIDERS; STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; X RAY MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHITIN; NANOMATERIAL;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOSENSOR; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; FIBER; FILTER; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIBRATION; X RAY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MECHANORECEPTOR; OPTICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNCHROTRON;

ARANEAE; CTENIDAE; CUPIENNIUS SALEI;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPIDERS; SYNCHROTRONS; VIBRATION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAYS;

EID: 84923253740     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.1111     Document Type: Article

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