Sticky berries adhere with strength and ease
61. Flexural, torsional stiffness with minimal material use: organisms
"Hollow cylindrical tubes. The way these give high flexural and torsional stiffness with minimal material hasn't been lost on either nature or engineers. We use them as subsystems when building bicycles and racing cars and as entire systems in so-...
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Email62. Insects get caught in sticky webs because of their body surface.
“The surface features of an insect body determine how much of a capture thread’s potential adhesion contributes to insect retention. This operational thread adhesion combines with features of web architecture, such as capture spiral spacing, a...
63. Gecko-inspired bandage
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a surgical bandage that mimics the way that gecko feet can adhere to vertical surfaces. The bandage could be used for both applications both outside and inside the body, su...
64. Running on waxy leaves: Arboreal ants
"Even less clear is the basis of 'wax-running,' by which some ants get around on the slippery epicuticular wax of plants. Federle, Rohrseitz, and Hölldobler (2000) measured attachment forces by making ants do their thing under varying amounts...
65. Partner diversity increases growth: acacia tree
"Determining how multiple partnerships might interactivel affect lifetime fitness is a crucial unexplored link in understanding the evolution and maintenance of cooperation. The tropical tree Acacia drepanolobium associates with four symbiotic ant...
66. Receptors adhere selectively: microbes
"Successful establishment of infection by bacterial pathogens requires adhesion to host cells, colonization of tissues, and in certain cases, cellular invasion—followed by intracellular multiplication, dissemination to other tissues, or pers...
67. Nanopore measuring device
By mimicking the structure of the silk moth's antenna, University of Michigan researchers led the development of a better nanopore. Nanopores are essentially holes drilled in a silicon chip and are miniscule measurement devices that enable the stu...
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69. Curli allow Salmonella to adhere to Teflon and stainless steel.
“Structurally and biochemically, curli belong to a growing class of fibers known as amyloids…Biofilm formation is a multi-step developmental process that includes at least five distinguishable steps: (a) reversible attachment, (b) irreversible...
70. Velvet worms see with transparent rods.
“Among the ‘annelid’ features, the rhabdomeric type of receptor organelles, the presence of two kinds of retinal cells and a ‘lens’ as well as cilia situated in the longitudinal axis of the receptor processes are listed whereas an even a...
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