作者: José Bico , Benoît Roman , Loïc Moulin , Arezki Boudaoud
DOI: 10.1038/432690A
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摘要: We investigated why wet hair clumps into bundles by dunking a model brush of parallel elastic lamellae perfectly wetting liquid. As the is withdrawn, pairs aggregate successively, forming complex hierarchical patterns that depend on balance between capillary forces and elasticity lamellae. This capillary-driven self-assembly flexible structures, which occurs in tarsi insects1 biomimetic adhesives2 but can also damage micro-electromechanical structures3,4,5,6 or carbon nanotube ‘carpets’6,7,8, represents new type coalescence process.