Functional Surfaces in Biology : Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gorb, Stanislav N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Adhesion Enhancement and Reduction in Biological Surfaces
  • Adhesion Enhancement
  • The Echinoderm Tube Foot and its Role in Temporary Underwater Adhesion
  • Mechanisms and Principles Underlying Temporary Adhesion, Surface Exploration and Settlement Site Selection by Barnacle Cyprids: A Short Review
  • Alternative Tasks of the Insect Arolium with Special Reference to Hymenoptera
  • Organs of Adhesion in Some Mountain-stream Teleosts of India: Structure-Function Relationship
  • Surface Characteristics of Locomotor Substrata and Their Relationship to Gekkonid Adhesion: A Case Study of Rhoptropus cf biporosus
  • Adhesion Reduction
  • Variable Attachment to Plant Surface Waxes by Predatory Insects
  • The Waxy Surface in Nepenthes Pitcher Plants: Variability, Adaptive Significance and Developmental Evolution
  • Functional Surfaces in the Pitcher of the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata: A Cryo-Sem Approach.