wet adhesion and adhesive locomotion of snails on anti-adhesive non-wetting surfaces湿附着力和胶粘剂的蜗牛运动anti-adhesive不润湿的表面.pdfVIP

Wet Adhesion and Adhesive Locomotion of Snails on Anti-Adhesive Non-Wetting Surfaces ¤a* ¤b Neil J. Shirtcliffe , Glen McHale , Michael I. Newton School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom Abstract Creating surfaces capable of resisting liquid-mediated adhesion is extremely difficult due to the strong capillary forces that exist between surfaces. Land snails use this to adhere to and traverse across almost any type of solid surface of any orientation (horizontal, vertical or inverted), texture (smooth, rough or granular) or wetting property (hydrophilic or hydrophobic) via a layer of mucus. However, the wetting properties that enable snails to generate strong temporary attachment and the effectiveness of this adhesive locomotion on modern super-slippy superhydrophobic surfaces are unclear. Here we report that snail adhesion overcomes a wide range of these microscale and nanoscale topographically structured non-stick surfaces. For the one surface which we found to be snail resistant, we show that the effect is correlated with the wetting response of the surface to a weak surfactant. Our results elucidate some critical wetting factors for the design of anti-adhesive and bio-adhesion resistant surfaces. Citation: Shirtcliffe NJ, McHale G, Newton MI (2012) Wet Adhesion and Adhesive Locomotion of Snails on Anti-Adhesive Non-Wetting Surfaces. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36983. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036983 Editor: Richard G. Haverkamp, Massey University, New Zealand Received October 15, 2011; Accepted April 11, 2012; Published May 31, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Shirtcliffe et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, whi