Why so strong for the lotus leaf?

被引：34
作者：
Guo, Zhiguang [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Liu, Weimin [1 ]
Su, Bao-Lian [2 ]
机构：
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Lanzhou Inst Chem Phys, State Key Lab Solid Lubricat, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Namur, Lab Inorgan Mat Chem CMI, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
[3] Hubei Univ, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Wuhan 430062, Peoples R China
来源：
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2008年 / 93卷 / 20期
关键词：
biomechanics; botany; cellular biophysics; fractals; scanning electron microscopy;
D O I：
10.1063/1.3036535
中图分类号：
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号：
摘要：
The authors discussed the potential reasons why the lotus leaf is so strong by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed that the good mechanical properties of lotus leaf should be attributed to its architecture, such as paralleled microtubes structure, umbrellalike structure, and hierarchically layered hexagon structure. The important observation from this work is that the surface of the rear face of the lotus leaf seems to be constituted by the layers of hexagons whose hierarchical pilling up of size decreases as we go deeper from surface. This is a typical fractal-like phenomenon.
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