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Figure 1: a) The backswimmer N. glauca. The silvery shine on the surface of the hemelytra is caused by the to...
Figure 2: a) Left hemelytron of the backswimmer N. glauca. Four sections, defined by Wachmann [17], are shown. b)...
Figure 3: Transmission electron microscopy images of setae on the hemelytra of N. glauca. a–d) Clavus. a) Tub...
Figure 4: a) Three-dimensional reconstruction of a hemelytron µCT scan. The tomography data allowed an analys...
Figure 5: Toluidine blue/borax stained semi-thin sections through the clavus of a hemelytron of N. glauca (do...
Figure 6: a) Image of a water droplet detaching from the surface of N. glauca. The deformation of the droplet...
Figure 7: Proposed Notonecta forewing surface function. An air layer is kept in between the setae. The club-s...
Figure 8: a) Setup used for the proof of concept for the biomimetic Notonecta sensor inspired by the backswim...
Figure 1: Schematic diagrams of the experimental procedure. (a) By slowly freezing the silver nitrate electro...
Figure 2: SEM images of silver wires: (a) Overview: low-magnification image. (b) Zoom-in of (a). (c) Image of...
Figure 3: TEM analysis of thin silver wires and corresponding EDX information. (a) Bright-field image of typi...
Figure 4: Auger depth profile curves of freshly prepared and aged silver wires. The full and dotted curves co...
Figure 5: TEM analysis of thin comb-like silver dendrites (dark areas in the image left) and corresponding SA...