Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Adhesion and Friction in Biological Systems

  • Book
  • © 2012

Overview

Editors:
  1. Stanislav Gorb

    1. Department of Functional Morphology and, University of Kiel Zoological Institute, Kiel, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Broad range of biological surfaces is considered
  • Some papers from the book meanwhile belong to classical ones in the field
  • Detailed description of microscopy methods and tribological characterisation techniques helps readers in designing own studies on the topic

Part of the book series: Biologically-Inspired Systems (BISY, volume 3)

Buy print copy

Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Keywords

  • Adhesion
  • Biological systems
  • Biomechanics
  • Friction
  • Surfaces

About this book

This book is a collection of experimental studies demonstrating structure-function relationships in various biological systems having particular surface specialization to increase/decrease friction and adhesion. Studies on snake skin, adhesive pads, wing-interlocking devices and sticky mouthparts of insects as well as anti-adhesive and adhesive surfaces of plants are included in the volume containing four main subsections: (1) adhesion, (2) friction, (3) attachment-devices, (4) attachment-related behavior. Numerous experimental methods for characterizing tribological properties of biological surfaces at macro-, micro-, and nanoscale levels are demonstrated. This book is an excellent collection of publications on biotribology for both engineers and physicists working with biological systems as well as for biologists studying friction and adhesion. Inspirations from biology reported here may be also potentially interesting for biomimetics.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Stanislav Gorb

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adhesion and Friction in Biological Systems

  • Editors: Stanislav Gorb

  • Series Title: Biologically-Inspired Systems

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1444-1Published: 14 October 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7873-2Published: 23 August 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2211-0593

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-0607

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 280

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation