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Add  Composition and substrate-dependent strength of the silken attachment discs in spiders
Authors: Grawe, Ingo | Wolff, Jonas O | Gorb, Stanislav N
Date: 2014
Subject Keyword: silk | adhesion | tensile test | compound material | hierarchical structure | Araneae
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1128727
Description: Araneomorph spiders have evolved different silks with dissimilar material properties, serving different purposes. The two-compound pyriform secretion is used to glue silk threads to substrates or to o ... More
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Add  Gluing the 'unwettable' : soil-dwelling harvestmen use viscoelastic fluids for capturing springtails
Authors: Wolff, Jonas O | Schönhofer, Axel L | Schaber, Clemens F | Gorb, Stanislav N
Date: 2014
Subject Keyword: adhesion | tensile test | wetting | microstructure | Opiliones | Collembola
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1128711
Description: Gluing can be a highly efficient mechanism of prey capture, as it should require less complex sensory-muscular feedback. Whereas it is well known in insects, this mechanism is much less studied in ara ... More
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