Correlation analysis of symmetry breaking in the surface nanostructure ordering: case study of the ventral scale of the snake Morelia viridis

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Kovalev, A ^a   Filippov, A ^a,b   Gorb, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b DONETSK PHYSICOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ARTIFICIAL MATERIAL; BIOLOGICAL SURFACES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE ORDERS; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURE; SYMMETRY VIOLATION; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 84959525336     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-016-9795-2     Document Type: Article

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