Insect attachment on crystalline bioinspired wax surfaces formed by alkanes of varying chain lengths

Elena Gorb, Sandro Böhm, Nadine Jacky, Louis-Philippe Maier, Kirstin Dening, Sasha Pechook, Boaz Pokroy and Stanislav Gorb
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1031–1041. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.5.116

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Insect attachment on crystalline bioinspired wax surfaces formed by alkanes of varying chain lengths
Elena Gorb, Sandro Böhm, Nadine Jacky, Louis-Philippe Maier, Kirstin Dening, Sasha Pechook, Boaz Pokroy and Stanislav Gorb
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1031–1041. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.5.116

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Gorb, E.; Böhm, S.; Jacky, N.; Maier, L.-P.; Dening, K.; Pechook, S.; Pokroy, B.; Gorb, S. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1031–1041. doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.116

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