Adhesion of acorn barnacles on surface-active borate glasses

Mechanical Properties of Alkali Borate Glasses

A GLASS is, formally, a solid that solidifies without a well-defined melting point— defined as a singular temperature at which there occurs a discontinuous change in a physical property, for example specific volume, during transition between a liquid state and its corresponding solid state—but instead exhibits a continuous change in that property over a range of temperature. Glasses tend to inh...

Doped Zinc Lithium Bismuth Borate Glasses

Zinc lithium bismuth borate glasses containing Er in (25x): Bi2O3:20Li2O:20ZnO: 35B2O3:xEr2O3 (where x=1, 1.5,2 mol %) have been prepared by melt-quenching method. The amorphous nature of the glasses was confirmed by x-ray diffraction studies. Optical absorption and fluorescence spectra were recorded at room temperature for all glass samples. Judd-Ofelt intensity parameters Ωλ (λ=2, 4, 6) are e...

Dielectric dispersion in lithiumebismuth-borate glasses

ions doped zinc bismuth borate glasses

Glasses having composition 20ZnO·xBi2O3·(79-x)B2O3 (15 x 35, in mol%) doped with 1 mol% of Nd 3+ ions were prepared. The different physical and absorption spectral properties have been investigated to understand the variation of the hypersensitive absorption band intensities. From the absorption spectra, Judd-Ofelt intensity parameters, ( = 2, 4, 6) have been calculated and these parameters wer...

Adhesive Proteins of Stalked and Acorn Barnacles Display Homology with Low Sequence Similarities

Barnacle adhesion underwater is an important phenomenon to understand for the prevention of biofouling and potential biotechnological innovations, yet so far, identifying what makes barnacle glue proteins 'sticky' has proved elusive. Examination of a broad range of species within the barnacles may be instructive to identify conserved adhesive domains. We add to extensive information from the ac...