20150

,

from nature to technical and medical application

Janek von Byern, Ingo Grunwald, editors

Springer,

xi, 305 p. , ill. (some col.) , 27 cm.

Bonding single pollen grains together : how and why? / Michael Hesse -- Deadly glue - adhesive traps of carnivorous plants / Wolfram Adlassnig ... [et al.] -- Bonding tactics in ctenophores - morphology and function of the colloblast system / Janek von Byern, Claudia E. Mills and Patrick Flammang -- Gastropod secretory glands and adhesive gels / Andrew M. Smith -- Characterization of the adhesive systems in cephalopods / Norbert Cyran ... [et al.] -- Unravelling the sticky threads of sea cucumbers - a comparative study on Cuvierian tubule morphology and histochemistry / Pierre T. Decker and Patrick Flammang -- Adhesion mechanisms developed by sea stars : a review of the ultrastructure and composition of tube feet and their secretion / Elise Hennebert -- Adhesive exocrine glands in insects : morphology, ultrastructure, and adhesive secretion / Oliver Betz -- Mechanisms of adhesion in adult barnacles / Anne Marie Power ... [et al.] -- Morphology of the adhesive system in the sandcastle worm, Phragmatopoma californica / Ching Shuen Wang, Kelli K. Svendsen and Russell J. Stewart -- Adhesive dermal secretions of the Amphibia, with particular reference to the Australian limnodynastid genus Notaden / Michael J. Tyler -- Renewable (biological) compounds in adhesives for industrial applications / Hermann Onusseit -- Bio-inspired polyphenolic adhesives for medical and technical applications / Klaus Rischka ... [et al.] -- Medical products and their application range / Jessica Blume and Willi Schwotzer -- Fibrin : the very first biomimetic glue - still a great tool / James Ferguson, Sylvia Neurnberger and Heinz Redl -- Properties and potential alternative applications of fibrin glue / Sylvia Neurnberger ... [et al.] -- Biodegradable (meth)acrylate-based adhesives for surgical applications / Albrecht Berg, Fabian Peters and Matthias Schnabelrauch -- Byssus formation in Mytilus / Heather G. Silverman and Francisco F. Roberto -- Wet performance of biomimetic fibrillar adhesives / K.H. Aaron Lau and Phillip B. Messersmith.

AU Von Byern, Janek. , AU Grunwald, Ingo.

QH

623

.B56

2010

m

1391/11/17

9783709101414 (hbk.) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

c2010