Insect aquaplaning: Nepenthes pitcher plants capture prey with the peristome, a fully wettable water-lubricated anisotropic surface.
By H. Bohn, W. Federle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004
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Subfields: Genetics, Plant Science
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- Interfacial materials with special wettability (2013, background): “engineered to have special interfacial interactions with fluids – or special wettability – in order to survive in their innate environments.(5-23) For example, lotus leaves rely”
- Liquid-infused structured surfaces with exceptional anti-biofouling performance (2012, methodology): “Inspired by the Nepenthes pitcher plant (38), we recently developed a new model of omni-repellent surface, one based not on an unstable and transient solid-air Cassie-type interface, but rather on a stable, immobilized, and smooth liquid surface locked in place by a specially designed porous solid, ”
- Bio-inspired strategies for anti-icing. (2014, background): “the condensed water or rainwater on the hygroscopic nectar at the peristome surface.(108) Therefore, water is an alternative to be used as a lubricating liquid.”
- “Vegetable Dynamicks”: The Role of Water in Plant Movements (2012, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. that decrease insect adhesion (Gaume et al. 2004, Gorb et al. 2005) and wettable surfaces that cause insect aquaplaning (Bohn & Federle 2004).”
- Effects of surface topography and chemistry of Rumex obtusifolius leaves on the attachment of the beetle Gastrophysa viridula (2009, background): “The influence of physicochemical properties of plant surfaces (wettability by water, FSE) on insect attachment has been discussed recently in studies on carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes (Riedel et al., 2003; Bohn & Federle, 2004; Gorb et al., 2004; Gorb & Gorb, 2006).”
- Superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic plant surfaces: an inspiration for biomimetic materials (2009, neutral): “In many species, e.g. N. rafflesiana, insects become trapped by ‘aquaplaning’ on the wet pitcher rim (peristome; Bohn & Federle 2004).”