Overview: New subject not covered in other books to this extent.Interdisciplinarity.Potentially interesting to biologists.Physicists, engineers.Richly illustrated.This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular function(s). This volume, written by a team of specialists from different disciplines, covers various surface functions such as protection, defense, water transport, anti-wetting, self cleaning, light reflection and scattering, and acoustics. Because biological surfaces have a virtua
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