WHY A MOSQUITO CAN RESIDE ON WATER SURFACE AND ADHERE TO CEILING?

摘要：

Water strider was before considered one of the most powerfulwater-walkers due to its hierarchically hairy micro/nanostructures on its legs.However,here we found that the mosquito can not only give rise to a higherwater-supporting force than the water strider,but also can safely take off or landon the water surface,and also can attach on any solid surface like the fly.Amosquitos leg is covered by numerous scales consisting of the uniformmicroscale longitudinal ridges and nanoscale cross-ribs.Such specialhierarchical delicate structures on the leg surface are believed to give themosquito a surprising higher water-supporting ability.

关键词： Mosquito leg micronanostructure scales

作者: C.W.Wu X.Q.Kong

作者单位: State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis or Industrial Equipment,Faculty of Vehicle Engineering a State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment,Faculty of Vehicle Engineering

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第二届国际非均质材料力学会议(The Second International Conference on Heterogeneous Material Mechanics)

会议地点: 安徽黄山

会议语种:英文

页码: 588-592

在线出版日期: 2008-06-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）