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Wet Adhesion and Adhesive Locomotion of Snails on Anti-Adhesive Non-Wetting Surfaces

Creating surfaces capable of resisting liquid-mediated adhesion is extremely difficult due to the strong capillary forces that exist between surfaces. Land snails use this to adhere to and traverse across almost any type of solid surface of any orientation (horizontal, vertical or inverted), texture...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shirtcliffe, Neil J., McHale, Glen, Newton, Michael I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22693563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036983

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