Functional Surfaces in Biology Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gorb, Stanislav N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Έκδοση: 1.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Plant science.; Botany.; Physics.; Engineering.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Engineering, general.; Physics, general.; Plant Sciences.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.