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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Filippov A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3566598 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20130207
There is a huge variety in biological surfaces covered with micro- and nanostructures oriented at some angle to the supporting surface. Such structures, for example snake skin, burr-covered plant leaves, cleaning devices and many others cause mechanical anisotropy due to different friction or/and mechanical interlocking during sliding in contact with another surface in different directions. Such surfaces serve propulsion generation on the substrate (or within the substrate) for the purpose of lo ...[more]