Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2014,5, 2424–2439, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.252
pressure difference at vacuum conditions can be ameliorated under water, due to the increasing pressure with water depth.
Keywords: adhesion; biofilm; friction; hooks; suction; Introduction
Attachment in animals, plants and microorganisms serves a variety of functions: the interconnection of body parts
mechanisms, (2) the biological function and (3) the duration of attachment time, the attachment mechanisms have been divided into eight main functional principles: wet and dry adhesion, friction, suction and the mechanical principles hooks, clamps, locks and spacers [2]. We will discuss the differences
between these fundamental principles when applied under water. In nature some animals combine these fixation principles, for example limpets use suction and glue, black fly larvae support their hooks by secretion and some squids combine suckers with hooks.
Attachment is a two-body problem so there is
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A) Green dock beetle Gastrophysa viridula as an example for terrestrial attachment (image: Stanisla...
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substrate surface. We therefore conclude that the observed overlayer is a coincidence II epitaxy, when we follow the classification scheme by Hooks et al. [2]. The characteristics of such a type of epitaxy are that only some of the overlayer lattice points lie on primitive substrate lattice lines and that a
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MSPS can have two conformations, namely the agraffe-like cis (a) and the scorpion-like trans (b) is...