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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |