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Functional Surfaces in Biology

Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Stanislav N. Gorb

    1. Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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  • New subject not covered in other books to this extent
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Potentially interesting to biologists
  • Physicists, engineers
  • Richly illustrated

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This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular function(s). This volume, written by a team of specialists from different disciplines, covers various surface functions such as protection, defense, water transport, anti-wetting, self cleaning, light reflection and scattering, and acoustics. Because biological surfaces have a virtually endless potential of technological ideas for the development of new materials and systems, inspirations from biology could also be interesting for a broad range of topics in surface engineering.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction Adhesion Enhancement and Reduction in Biological Surfaces

      • Stanislav Gorb
      Pages 3-6

  3. Adhesion Enhancement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Echinoderm Tube Foot and its Role in Temporary Underwater Adhesion

      • Romana Santos, Elise Hennebert, Ana Varela Coelho, Patrick Flammang
      Pages 9-41

    3. Mechanisms and Principles Underlying Temporary Adhesion, Surface Exploration and Settlement Site Selection by Barnacle Cyprids: A Short Review

      • Nicholas Aldred, Anthony S. Clare
      Pages 43-65

    4. Alternative Tasks of the Insect Arolium with Special Reference to Hymenoptera

      • Dmytro Gladun, Stanislav N. Gorb, Leonid I. Frantsevich
      Pages 67-103

    5. Organs of Adhesion in Some Mountain-stream Teleosts of India: Structure-Function Relationship

      • Debasish Das, Tapas C. Nag
      Pages 105-122

    6. Surface Characteristics of Locomotor Substrata and Their Relationship to Gekkonid Adhesion: A Case Study of Rhoptropus cf biporosus

      • Megan Johnson, Anthony Russell, Sonia Delannoy
      Pages 123-154

  4. Adhesion Reduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Variable Attachment to Plant Surface Waxes by Predatory Insects

      • Sanford D. Eigenbrode, William E. Snyder, Garrett Clevenger, Hongjian Ding, Stanislav N. Gorb
      Pages 157-181

    3. The Waxy Surface in Nepenthes Pitcher Plants: Variability, Adaptive Significance and Developmental Evolution

      • Bruno Di Giusto, Michaël Guéroult, Nick Rowe, Laurence Gaume
      Pages 183-203

    4. Functional Surfaces in the Pitcher of the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata: A Cryo-Sem Approach

      • Elena V. Gorb, Stanislav N. Gorb
      Pages 205-238

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-268
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Stanislav N. Gorb

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