Elastic modulus of tree frog adhesive toe pads
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Hybrid Surface Patterns Mimicking the Design of the Adhesive Toe Pad of Tree Frog
Biological materials achieve directional reinforcement with oriented assemblies of anisotropic building blocks. One such example is the nanocomposite structure of keratinized epithelium on the toe pad of tree frogs, in which hexagonal arrays of (soft) epithelial cells are crossed by densely packed and oriented (hard) keratin nanofibrils. Here, a method is established to fabricate arrays of tree...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Comparative Physiology A
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0340-7594,1432-1351
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-011-0658-1