Chemical approaches to studying plant/animal interactions have led to an appreciation that plant chemistry strongly influences patterns of herbivory. Although this chemistry is often rather complex, two basic factors have emerged: plant chemistry influences herbivores in both positive and negative ways by determining dietary quality of plants and by providing feeding cues. Examination of the re...

Biomimetic hierarchical surfaces demonstrate a potential for a variety of green technologies, including energy conversion and conservation, owing to their remarkable water repellence. The design of such surfaces allowing emerging green applications remains a challenging scientific and technological task. Understanding the physical mechanism of wetting transitions (WTs) is crucial for the design...

A modern environmental safety approach requires the implementation of green or sustainable strategies, such as banning significantly lowering presence harmful substances on market in industrial environment. To date, majority highly performing solutions are still based fluorine chemistry, even with a growing effort to lower its impact. Economic costs, but also persistence, long-term degradation,...

Abstract Purpose Soil water repellence causes uneven soil wetting which can constrain dryland crop and pasture establishment yield. The same processes are likely to affect nutrient availability from fertiliser, but the effects of on growth nutrition per se have seldom been reported. Here, we investigated early wheat ( Triticum aestivum cv. Mace) uptake responses repellence. Methods Wheat was fu...

The Edwards model in one dimension is a transformed path measure for standard Brownian motion discouraging self-intersections. We prove a central limit theorem for the endpoint of the path, extending a law of large numbers proved by Westwater (1984). The scaled variance is characterized in terms of the largest eigenvalue of a one-parameter family of differential operators, introduced and analyz...

With wood regaining substantial interest as a construction material due to sustainability concerns and aesthetics trends, efficient safe protection methods are needed prevent the discouloration loss of mechanical properties this renewable UV-sensitive material. In study, sustainable coatings comprising 0 20 wt% biocarbon (BC) dispersed in tung oil were developed for protection. BC particles add...

Superhydrophobicity is the extreme water repellence of highly textured surfaces. The field of superhydrophobicity research has reached a stage where huge numbers of candidate treatments have been proposed and jumps have been made in theoretically describing them. There now seems to be a move to more practical concerns and to considering the demands of individual applications instead of more gen...