The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion

By David Hu, Brian Chan, J. M. Bush. Nature, 2003

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Numerical studies of the influence of the dynamic contact angle on a droplet impacting on a dry surface (2009, background): “[42] D.”
The hydrodynamics of water-walking arthropods (2010, methodology): “Implicit in the analysis of Hu et al. (2003) and Bühler (2007) for the water strider and in that of Hsieh (2004) for the basilisk lizard is that momentum is similarly conserved for propulsion at a free surface, a result to be proven in § 5.2.”
Interfacial materials with special wettability (2013, background): “(16) The legs of water striders are covered with tiny oriented hairs with fine nanogrooves that allow them to propel the strider efficiently on water surface.(11, 54) Another example can be found on rice leaves that consist of one-dimensional arrays of oriented micro/nanotextures that enable the tra”