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Sulfur nanocomposites with insecticidal effect for the control of Bactericera cockerelli

  • Lany S. Araujo-Yépez,
  • Juan O. Tigrero-Salas,
  • Vicente A. Delgado-Rodríguez,
  • Vladimir A. Aguirre-Yela and
  • Josué N. Villota-Méndez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1106–1115, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.91

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  • lipophilic and, thus, can enter the insect and cause biochemical dysfunction and mortality [50]. Rosemary essential oil-laden nanoformulations have shown significant insecticidal activity for the effective management of the red beetle Tribolium castaneum [51]. Another study claimed that eucalyptus essential
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Published 17 Nov 2023

Biomimetics on the micro- and nanoscale – The 25th anniversary of the lotus effect

  • Matthias Mail,
  • Kerstin Koch,
  • Thomas Speck,
  • William M. Megill and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 850–856, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.69

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  • dehumidifiers or water purifiers. The authors here present a model based on a carbon nanotube structure that might finally provide a route to the breakthrough in this field. Their archetype, the Namibian desert beetle, uses a geometric separation of hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions to harvest and drive water
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Published 03 Aug 2023

Atmospheric water harvesting using functionalized carbon nanocones

  • Fernanda R. Leivas and
  • Marcia C. Barbosa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1–10, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.1

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  • water. The cactus for example has spikes where droplets move from the tip to the base, or from the higher to the lower Laplace area. One mechanism developed by nature to capture liquid water from water vapor is present in the Namibian desert beetle, which collects water from morning steam in the desert
  • [17]. This beetle has hydrophilic spots on its back, which transform vapor into liquid water. For the collection to be efficient, below the hydrophilic spots, its wings are hydrophobic, and the captured water moves from hydrophilic to hydrophobic parts driven by gravity. The efficiency of this process
  • led to the development of mimetic strategies [18][19][20][21], which require the combination of wetting and dewetting properties used by the beetle. The hydrophobic region, as is also the case for the cactus, is fundamental for the mobility of water. Water presents other kinds of anomalous behavior in
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Published 02 Jan 2023

Micro-structures, nanomechanical properties and flight performance of three beetles with different folding ratios

  • Jiyu Sun,
  • Pengpeng Li,
  • Yongwei Yan,
  • Fa Song,
  • Nuo Xu and
  • Zhijun Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 845–856, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.75

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  • , microstructures and nanomechanical properties of three beetle species with different wing folding ratios living in different environments were investigated. Factors affecting their flight performance, that is, wind speed, folding ratio, aspect ratio, and flapping frequency, were examined using a wind tunnel. It
  • was found that the wing folding ratio correlated with the lift force of the beetles. Wind speed, folding ratio, aspect ratio, and flapping frequency had a combined effect on the flight performance of the beetles. The results will be helpful to design new deployable FWMAVs. Keywords: beetle hind wings
  • hind wings of beetles are folded to reduce their size and to hide under the elytra [23][24]. The foldable wings of beetles have attracted the interest of aerospace engineering scientists as well as entomologists [25]. Knowledge about the folding mechanism of beetle hind wings can be used to design
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Published 26 Aug 2022

Polarity in cuticular ridge development and insect attachment on leaf surfaces of Schismatoglottis calyptrata (Araceae)

  • Venkata A. Surapaneni,
  • Tobias Aust,
  • Thomas Speck and
  • Marc Thielen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1326–1338, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.98

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  • Surapaneni and co-workers [23]. A highly sensitive force transducer (FORT 25, force range: 0–0.25 N, World Precision Instruments Inc., Sarasota, USA) was used to measure maximum walking frictional forces of insects on the leaf surfaces. The elytra of each beetle was attached to the force transducer using a
  • median of the 15 highest local maxima with a minimum interval of 3 s between neighbouring force peaks was extracted. Supporting Information File 3 shows a potato beetle walking on the leaf surface. The average mass of the beetles was 0.17 g. The experiments were conducted under an average temperature of
  • , and (c) shows frequency density plots of orientations of the long axes of cells (in pink) and ridge islands (in blue) with respect to the midrib of the leaf. Insect traction forces: (a) A female Colorado potato beetle walking on a Schismatoglottis calyptrata leaf sample and (b) traction forces (in mN
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Published 01 Dec 2021

Physical constraints lead to parallel evolution of micro- and nanostructures of animal adhesive pads: a review

  • Thies H. Büscher and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 725–743, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.57

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  • coverage. Similar data have been obtained for the chrysomelid beetle Hemisphaerota cyanea (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) [261]. In smooth insect pads, the pad secretion consists of a water-soluble and a lipid-soluble part [254]. Data obtained from shock-freezing, carbon–platinum coating, and replica
  • [108] (© 2018 Büscher et al., published by Frontiers, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)). Compliancy of adhesive structures to the substrate (A,B) and contact splitting (C). (A) Contact of a spatula of the beetle Gastrophysa viridula with a surface with
  • body mass in fibrillar pad systems in representatives of diverse animal groups: 1, 2, 4, 5, flies; 3 beetle; 6 bug; 7 spider; 8 Gekkonid lizard (Figure 6C is from [247] and was adapted by permission from Springer Nature from “Biological Micro– and Nanotribology: Nature’s Solutions” by M. Scherge and S
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Published 15 Jul 2021

Nanoscale spatial mapping of mechanical properties through dynamic atomic force microscopy

  • Zahra Abooalizadeh,
  • Leszek Josef Sudak and
  • Philip Egberts

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1332–1347, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.132

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  • F20 transmission electron microscope (TEM) using a custom designed sample holder based on the design reported in [27]. Profiles of the lowest asperity were measured, accounting for the 22° tilt of the cantilever with respect to the sample surface in the RHK beetle-type beam deflection AFM. The tip
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Published 03 Jul 2019

Biological and biomimetic surfaces: adhesion, friction and wetting phenomena

  • Stanislav N. Gorb,
  • Kerstin Koch and
  • Lars Heepe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 481–482, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.48

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  • are devoted to surface-related effects in animal and plant surfaces, such as sandfish scales, wings of a ladybird beetle, tarsi of burying beetles, attachment devices of a sea star and a sea urchin, elytra of a backswimmer, leaves of an ice plant, and the wax layer of sacred lotus leaves. Seven of the
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Published 15 Feb 2019

Pull-off and friction forces of micropatterned elastomers on soft substrates: the effects of pattern length scale and stiffness

  • Peter van Assenbergh,
  • Marike Fokker,
  • Julian Langowski,
  • Jan van Esch,
  • Marleen Kamperman and
  • Dimitra Dodou

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 79–94, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.8

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  • under load and may conform to the geometry of the adhesive. For example, for a simplified representation of a discoidal adhesive element of a beetle, Heepe et al. showed that if the substrate is stiffer than the adhesive apparatus, a detachment mechanism similar to that observed for mushroom-shapes
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Published 08 Jan 2019

A comparison of tarsal morphology and traction force in the two burying beetles Nicrophorus nepalensis and Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera, Silphidae)

  • Liesa Schnee,
  • Benjamin Sampalla,
  • Josef K. Müller and
  • Oliver Betz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 47–61, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.5

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  • , Hauptstr.1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.10.5 Abstract Our aim was to compare friction and traction forces between two burying beetle species of the genus Nicrophorus exhibiting different attachment abilities during climbing. Specifically, the interaction of adhesive hairs and claws during
  • impulse for this study was our observed difference in the climbing ability of the two congeneric burying beetle species Nicrophorus nepalensis Hope 1831 and Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst 1783 (Coleoptera, Silphidae). Because N. vespilloides beetles are, in contrast to N. nepalensis, unable to climb up
  • performance between two closely related beetle species. It was initiated with regard to our previous observation that N. nepalensis beetles can strongly attach to smooth surfaces, whereas N. vespilloides cannot. This finding led us to inquire into the potential mechanisms responsible for generating major
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Published 04 Jan 2019

The effect of flexible joint-like elements on the adhesive performance of nature-inspired bent mushroom-like fibers

  • Elliot Geikowsky,
  • Serdar Gorumlu and
  • Burak Aksak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2893–2905, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.268

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  • compliance. In composite fibers, tip articulation could be critical for performance. In some biological attachment systems, such as the male ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata), a joint of soft material between the setal stalk and the tip of an individual fiber has been discovered [31]. This feature
  • resultant bending moment when compared to a monolithically constructed fiber. Inspired by the construction and the material composition of beetle setal arrays as shown in Figure 1a, bent mushroom-like fiber arrays are fabricated from polyurethane materials using a stiff stalk, a softer tip, and joint-like
  • microscopy (CLSM) of a lateral view of discoidal (mushroom-shaped) adhesive hairs in a male ladybird beetle. Differences in the autofluorescence indicate the presence and distribution of different materials. Blue regions (transitions from the hair shaft to the tip structure) indicate portions of the soft
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Published 19 Nov 2018

Effect of microtrichia on the interlocking mechanism in the Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

  • Jiyu Sun,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Bharat Bhushan,
  • Wei Wu and
  • Jin Tong

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 812–823, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.75

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  • 43210-1142, USA 10.3762/bjnano.9.75 Abstract The hindwings of beetles are folded under the elytra when they are at rest but are extended during flight, which can provide bioinspiration for the design of deployable micro air vehicles (MAVs). Beetle hindwings must be able to be both securely locked under
  • structure [2][3]. The folding and self-locking function of beetle hindwings provides new ideas for the design of MAVs, which will help simplify the design of folding wings. Beetle hindwings fold under the forewings (elytra). One advantage of this is size reduction, and another is that membranous hindwings
  • hindwings and abdomen [5], and the body forms a stable whole. The successive evolution of interlocking mechanisms and forewing design resulted from selective pressure in strengthening and protective functions [6]. Various hindwing locking mechanisms have been found in beetles [7]. Beetle hindwing folding
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Published 06 Mar 2018

Biological and biomimetic materials and surfaces

  • Stanislav Gorb and
  • Thomas Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 403–407, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.42

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  • diatomes and increases their resistance to mechanical damage. The thin hind wings of diving beetles (Dytiscidae) are fragile and protected by their elytra (leathery forewings). In the resting beetle, the hind wings are folded over the abdomen; in flight, they are unfolded in order to provide aerodynamic
  • smooth vertical surfaces and ceilings. The functioning of the pads depends on various environmental factors. Heepe et al. showed that the attachment performance of the beetle Coccinella septempunctata depends on the relative humidity. The authors demonstrated that both low (15%) and high (99
  • %) environmental humidity leads to a decrease of attachment forces generated by beetles [18]. The paper by England et al. systematically investigated beetle attachment ability on eight different surfaces having different structural and physico-chemical properties. The results show that chemical surface properties
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Published 08 Feb 2017

Structural and tribometric characterization of biomimetically inspired synthetic "insect adhesives"

  • Matthias W. Speidel,
  • Malte Kleemeier,
  • Andreas Hartwig,
  • Klaus Rischka,
  • Angelika Ellermann,
  • Rolf Daniels and
  • Oliver Betz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 45–63, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.6

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  • the double bonds and the methyl branches modify this behaviour [27]. Indeed, in the potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata, the supplementation of unsaturated components (e.g., cis-alkenes) to the adhesive tarsal secretions results in a significant reduction of friction forces [28]. Recent chemical
  • branched monomethyl-, dimethyl- and trimethyl- (the latter substance in S. gregaria only) alkanes and long-chain fatty acids and aldehydes (in S. gregaria only). In the tarsal adhesives of the hairy adhesive systems of the frog beetle Sagra femorata and carrion beetles of the genus Nicrophorus, Gerhardt et
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Published 06 Jan 2017

Surface roughness rather than surface chemistry essentially affects insect adhesion

  • Matt W. England,
  • Tomoya Sato,
  • Makoto Yagihashi,
  • Atsushi Hozumi,
  • Stanislav N. Gorb and
  • Elena V. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1471–1479, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.139

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  • ]. However, recent studies on insect attachment have yielded contradicting results. For example, a previous experimental study on attachment of the beetle Gastrophysa viridula to the leaf surface of its host plant Rumex obtusifolius, and artificial micro-roughened and smooth (hydrophobic and hydrophilic
  • pronounced reduction. Prüm et al. [17] measured the traction force of the beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on different plant surfaces and their artificial replicas, and reported that surface roughness exerted a strong influence on attachment, whereas surface chemistry was found to have no significant
  • influence, despite both of these affecting the magnitude of water contact angles (CAs). Additionally, the attachment of the leaf beetle Gastrophysa viridula did not strongly depend on the free energy of the surface of the substrate [34]. More recently, the attachment strength of the beetle Galerucella
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Published 18 Oct 2016

Influence of ambient humidity on the attachment ability of ladybird beetles (Coccinella septempunctata)

  • Lars Heepe,
  • Jonas O. Wolff and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1322–1329, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.123

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  • tarsal soles of tenent setae, supplemented with an adhesive fluid. We studied the attachment ability of the seven-spotted ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata) at different humidities by horizontal traction experiments. We found that both low (15%) and high (99%) relative humidities lead to a
  • not only dry adhesive setae are affected by ambient humidity, but also setae that stick due to the capillarity of an oily secretion. Keywords: adhesion; beetle; biomechanics; force measurement; friction; insect; locomotion; surface; Introduction Substrate attachment plays an important role in the
  • wet adhesive system of C. septempunctata? (2) Is the attachment ability in both sexes likewise affected by ambient humidity? Experimental Animals For this study, the seven-spotted ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata LINNAEUS 1758 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) was chosen (Figure 1A). This beetle
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Published 22 Sep 2016

Functional diversity of resilin in Arthropoda

  • Jan Michels,
  • Esther Appel and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1241–1259, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.115

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  • partially plastic deformation at the base is mainly due to the presence of stiffer tanned exoskeleton. It is very likely that effects similar to those observed in beetle adhesive tarsal setae exist in other exoskeleton structures with comparable gradients of the resilin proportion. Occurrence and functions
  • serve wing folding but also act as flexion lines at which the wing flexes during flight, thereby supporting the generation of an aerodynamically favourable cambered wing profile [92][94]. In beetle wings, resilin was found to occur at the marginal joint, between veins that separate during folding, and
  • along flexion lines in membranous areas, leading to the hypothesis that elastic energy storage by resilin can support wing unfolding also in beetle wings [21]. However, this can, if at all, only be a supportive role because wing unfolding in beetles was stated to be mainly achieved by scissor-like
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Published 01 Sep 2016

The hydraulic mechanism in the hind wing veins of Cybister japonicus Sharp (order: Coleoptera)

  • Jiyu Sun,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Mingze Ling,
  • Bharat Bhushan and
  • Jin Tong

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 904–913, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.82

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  • wings are thin and fragile under the protection of their elytra (forewings). When the beetle is at rest the hind wings are folded over the abdomen of the beetle and when in flight they unfold to provide the necessary aerodynamic forces. In this paper, the unfolding process of the hind wing of Cybister
  • . The blood flow and pressure changes are discussed. The driving mechanism for hydraulic control of the folding and unfolding actions of beetle hind wings is put forward. This can assist the design of new deployable micro air vehicles and bioinspired deployable systems. Keywords: bioinspiration; diving
  • , flexibility, low cost, and portability. There are three main flight modes: fixed wing, rotor, and flapping. Insects possess a remarkable ability to fly, far superior to what humans achieved in the production of MAVs with a low Reynolds number. In general, the hind wings of a beetle are larger than its
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Published 23 Jun 2016

In situ scanning tunneling microscopy study of Ca-modified rutile TiO2(110) in bulk water

  • Giulia Serrano,
  • Beatrice Bonanni,
  • Tomasz Kosmala,
  • Marco Di Giovannantonio,
  • Ulrike Diebold,
  • Klaus Wandelt and
  • Claudio Goletti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 438–443, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.44

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  • in a compact “BEETLE”-type setup [20]. The STM housing was filled with Argon gas in order to ensure an inert atmosphere. Tungsten tips were used for the STM measurements. The tips were prepared by chemical etching (2 M KOH solution) and then coated with hot glue to minimize the faradaic current
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Published 12 Feb 2015

Aquatic versus terrestrial attachment: Water makes a difference

  • Petra Ditsche and
  • Adam P. Summers

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2424–2439, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.252

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  • does not always point in the ventral direction. In Figure 1, the beetle is attached to a substrate above it and the gravitational vector points almost exactly opposite to the attachment force. Buoyancy The density of water (ρw) is much higher than the density of air and is closer to the typical density
  • important difference between adhesion in terrestrial and aquatic systems. Nevertheless, there are exceptions. Some terrestrial animals can step in droplets, e.g., on plant surfaces or even be completely submerged under water for a short time due to heavy rainfall. For example, the beetle Gastrophysa
  • viridula can walk under water [43]. This beetle develops higher adhesive forces on hydrophobic surfaces compared to hydrophilic ones. The hydrophobic setose pads of the beetle hold air under water, so if it encounters hydrophobic surfaces the contact interface gets de-wetted, but not on hydrophilic
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Published 17 Dec 2014

Physical principles of fluid-mediated insect attachment - Shouldn’t insects slip?

  • Jan-Henning Dirks

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1160–1166, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.127

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  • work, in particular a more accurate in vivo measurement of the height of the mediating fluid and high-resolution single-leg force measurements on smooth substrates with well known physical properties are required to answer these questions [14]. Adhesive pad morphology of a male dock beetle (Gastrophysa
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Published 28 Jul 2014

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, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.116

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  • experimental studies. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of different parameters of crystalline wax coverage on insect attachment. We performed traction experiments with the beetle Coccinella septempunctata and pull-off force measurements with artificial adhesive systems (tacky
  • apparent contact angle of water, which were very close to those measured on plant surfaces bearing three-dimensional waxes (e.g., [49][50][51]). The tarsal attachment system of the C. septempunctata beetle used in this study has been previously described in detail by Gorb et al. [52]. The tarsus bears two
  • the studied substrates were lacking surface structures suitable for claw interlocking (larger than 4 μm according to [1]), we assume that insect attachment relied solely on the performance of adhesive pads. Traction force tests demonstrated a great reduction in beetle attachment on microstructured
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Published 14 Jul 2014

Fibrillar adhesion with no clusterisation: Functional significance of material gradient along adhesive setae of insects

  • Stanislav N. Gorb and
  • Alexander E. Filippov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 837–845, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.95

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  • fibers with longer soft tips on the stiff bases and fibers with stiff tips on the soft bases. This study not only manifests the crucial role of gradients in material properties along the setae in beetle fibrillar adhesive system, but predicts that similar gradients must have been convergently evolved in
  • presented the combined study on the material structure and local mechanical properties in tarsal setae of the beetle Coccinella septempunctata and demonstrated the presence of a material gradient at the level of each single seta [12]. Setal elasticity modulus, probed by atomic force microscope (AFM), ranges
  • gradients of material properties in real beetle setae was used in the numerical model presented below. Numerical model In principle, to model mechanics of the setae a classical beam theory can be applied. However, for long array of the beams it needs in extremely time consuming numerical calculation. To
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The surface microstructure of cusps and leaflets in rabbit and mouse heart valves

  • Xia Ye,
  • Bharat Bhushan,
  • Ming Zhou and
  • Weining Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 622–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.73

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  • microstructures of the water skipper’s leg, the moth’s eye, shark skin, the darkling beetle, and the cicada’s wing [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. At the same time, the relationship between superhydrophobicity and surface microstructures attracted strong interest. A large number of surfaces with all kinds
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Published 13 May 2014

Impact of cell shape in hierarchically structured plant surfaces on the attachment of male Colorado potato beetles (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)

  • Bettina Prüm,
  • Robin Seidel,
  • Holger Florian Bohn and
  • Thomas Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 57–64, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.7

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  • . Independent of superimposed microstructures we found that convex and papillate epidermal cell shapes slightly enhance the attachment ability of the beetles. Thus, in plant surfaces, cell shape and superimposed microstructuring yield contrary effects on the attachment of the Colorado potato beetle, with convex
  • , claws generally improve grip [14][15] depending on the dimensions of the surface asperities and the insect’s claws [15][16]. If the diameter of the claw tip is smaller than the surface roughness, the claws can hook into the surface irregularities and the beetle thereby increases attachment forces. As in
  • of the beetle. Similar to the findings of Voigt et al. [13], our results support the principal role of adhesive pads in attachment to both smooth and rough substrates. On petals of Rosa hybrid Floribunda cv. “Sarabande” traction-force measurements showed a distinctively higher variation towards
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