Nature Inspires: The Story of Lotus Leaf and Gecko’s Foot
Khandelwal, Mudrika and Sharma, Chandra Shekhar (2021) Nature Inspires: The Story of Lotus Leaf and Gecko’s Foot. Resonance, 26 (9). pp. 1279-1285. ISSN 0971-8044
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This article discusses two of the several examples from Nature that serves as an inspiration for scientists and engineers— lotus leaf and gecko’s foot. Lotus leaf is superhydrophobic and exhibits self-cleaning properties. On the other hand, gecko’s foot can attach to any surface and move around quickly without leaving a mark. Both these phenomena are attributed to nanostructured hierarchical organization, which modulates or tunes the surface area. Applications of superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf and adhesion of gecko’s foot are also mentioned. © 2021, Indian Academy of Sciences.
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| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adhesion; gecko’s foot; lotus leaf; Self-cleaning; superhydrophobic | ||||||
| Subjects: | Materials Engineering > Materials engineering Chemical Engineering |
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| Divisions: | Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Material Science Engineering |
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| Depositing User: | . LibTrainee 2021 | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 11:05 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 11:05 | ||||||
| URI: | http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/10515 | ||||||
| Publisher URL: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-021-1229-6 | ||||||
| OA policy: | https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/23136 | ||||||
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