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Functional Surfaces in Biology

Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2

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  • © 2009

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  • New subject not covered in other books to this extent
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Potentially interesting to biologists
  • Physicists, engineers
  • Richly illustrated

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Adhesion Reduction

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About this book

This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular function(s). This volume, written by a team of specialists from different disciplines, covers various surface functions such as protection, defense, water transport, anti-wetting, self cleaning, light reflection and scattering, and acoustics. Because biological surfaces have a virtually endless potential of technological ideas for the development of new materials and systems, inspirations from biology could also be interesting for a broad range of topics in surface engineering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Stanislav N. Gorb

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