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SUBMITTER: Zhang C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5792911 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Chengqi C Beard Charles E CE Adler Peter H PH Kornev Konstantin G KG
Royal Society open science 20180117 1
Proboscises of butterflies are modelled as elliptical hollow fibres that can be bent into coils. The behaviour of coating films on such complex fibres is investigated to explain the remarkable ability of these insects to control liquid collection after dipping the proboscis into a flower or pressing and mopping it over a food source. By using a thin-film approximation with the air-liquid interface positioned almost parallel to the fibre surface, capillary pressure was estimated from the profile ...[more]