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Physical principles of fluid-mediated insect attachment - Shouldn’t insects slip?

Insects use either hairy or smooth adhesive pads to safely adhere to various kinds of surfaces. Although the two types of adhesive pads are morphologically different, they both form contact with the substrate via a thin layer of adhesive fluid. To model adhesion and friction forces generated by inse...

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Autor principal: Dirks, Jan-Henning
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Beilstein-Institut 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4143074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25161849
http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.5.127

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