Editors:
- 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 (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Anti–wetting
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Transport
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Aerodynamics
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Acoustics
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Sensory Systems
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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
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Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Stanislav N. Gorb
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Surfaces in Biology
Book Subtitle: Little Structures with Big Effects Volume 1
Editors: Stanislav N. Gorb
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6697-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6696-2Published: 26 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9122-0Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6697-9Published: 13 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 384
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Engineering, general, Physics, general, Plant Sciences