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Capillary Rise on Legs of a Small Animal and on Artificially Textured Surfaces Mimicking Them

The wharf roach Ligia exotica is a small animal that lives by the sea and absorbs water from the sea through its legs by virtue of a remarkable array of small blades of micron scale. We find that the imbibition dynamics on the legs is rather complex on a microscopic scale, but on a macroscopic scale...

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Autores principales: Tani, Marie, Ishii, Daisuke, Ito, Shuto, Hariyama, Takahiko, Shimomura, Masatsugu, Okumura, Ko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24849071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096813