Mechanics of water collection in plants via morphology change of conical hairs

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2015, Pages

  Ito, Fuyu ^a   Komatsubara, Satoshi ^b   Shigezawa, Naoki ^a   Morikawa, Hideaki ^a   Murakami, Yasushi ^a   Yoshino, Katsumi ^b   Yamanaka, Shigeru ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; MOISTURE; MORPHOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

BIOINSPIRED TECHNOLOGY; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; FIBROUS STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; UNIQUE FEATURES; WATER COLLECTION; WATER SHORTAGES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 84926040230     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4916213     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. A. R. Parker and C. R. Lawrence, Nature 414, 33 (2001). 10.1038/35102108
2. T. Nørgaard and M. Dacke, Front. Zool. 7 (23), 23 (2010). 10.1186/1742-9994-7-23
3. L. Zhai, M. C. Berg, F. Cebeci, Y. Kim, J. M. Milwid, M. F. Rubner, and R. E. Cohen, Nano Lett. 6, 1213 (2006). 10.1021/nl060644q
4. A. Roth-Nebelsick, M. Ebner, T. Miranda, V. Gottschalk, D. Voigt, S. Gorb, T. Stegmaier, J. Sarsour, M. Linke, and W. Konrad, J. R. Soc. Interface 9, 1965 (2012). 10.1098/rsif.2011.0847
5. M. Ebner, T. Miranda, and A. Roth-Nebelsick, J. Arid. Environ. 75 (6), 524 (2011). 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.01.004
6. H. G. Andrews, E. A. Eccles, W. C. E. Schofield, and J. P. S. Badyal, Langmuir 27, 3798 (2011). 10.1021/la2000014
7. S. Vogel and U. Müller-Doblies, Flora 206 (1), 3 (2011). 10.1016/j.flora.2010.01.006
8. G. Grammatikopoulos and Y. Manetas, Can. J. Botany 72 (12), 1805 (1994). 10.1139/b94-222
9. N. Hind, Curtis's Bot. Mag. 23 (4), 289 (2006). 10.1111/j.1467-8748.2006.00543.x
10. C. R. Barnes, Bot. Gazette 4, 167 (1879). 10.1086/325239
11. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916213 E-APPLAB-106-005513 for their scanning micrographs.
12. J. Mendez, P. K. Annamalai, S. J. Eichhorn, R. Rusli, R. S. Rowan, E. J. Foster, and C. Weder, Macromolecules 44, 6827 (2011). 10.1021/ma201502k
13. H. Yang, H. Zhu, M. M. R. M. Hendrix, N. J. H. C. M. Lousberg, G. With, A. C. C. Esteves, and J. H. Xin, Adv. Mater. 25 (8), 1150 (2013). 10.1002/adma.201204278
14. U. Mock, R. Förster, R. Menz, and J. Rühe, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, S639 (2005). 10.1088/0953-8984/17/9/021
15. Y. Hou, Y. Chen, Y. Xue, Y. Zheng, and L. Jiang, Langmuir 28, 4737 (2012). 10.1021/la204682j
16. T. S. Yu, J. Park, H. Lim, and K. S. Breuer, Langmuir 28, 12771 (2012). 10.1021/la301901m
17. K. J. Bathe, Finite Element Procedures (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996).
18. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Wood industry Handbook (Maruzen, Tokyo, 2004).