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  title info:
    title: Functional Surfaces in Biology
    sub title: Little Structures with Big Effects Volume 1
  name:
    name part: Gorb, Stanislav N.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 384 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: Surface Properties and their Functions in Biological Systems -- Protection and Defence -- Biological Properties of Fruit and Seed Slime Envelope: How to Live, Fly, and Not Die -- Easily Damaged Integument of Some Sawflies (Hymenoptera) is Part of a Defence Strategy Against Predators -- Anti–wetting -- Water Repellence in Gecko Skin: How Do Geckos Keep Clean? -- Anti-Wetting Surfaces in Heteroptera (Insecta): Hairy Solutions to Any Problem -- Water Repellent Properties of Spiders: Topographical Variations and Functional Correlates -- Dry in the Water: The Superhydrophobic Water Fern Salvinia – a Model for Biomimetic Surfaces -- Brochosomal Coatings of the Integument of Leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) -- Transport -- Pull, Push and Evaporate: The Role of Surfaces in Plant Water Transport -- Aerodynamics -- Molding and Carving Cell Surfaces: The Joke of a Fold and the Origin and Evolution of Feathers -- Acoustics -- Surface Structure of Sound Emission Organs in Urania Moths -- Sensory Systems -- Functional Coupling of Cercal Filiform Hairs and Campaniform Sensilla in Crickets -- Optics -- Advanced Photonic Systems on the Wing-Scales of Lepidoptera -- Sub-micron Structures Causing Reflection and Antireflection in Animals -- Surface Colors of Insects: Wings and Eyes -- Butterfly Photonics: Form and Function.
  note: edited by Stanislav N. Gorb.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, general
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402066979
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6697-9
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