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How to Improve Soil Anti-adhesion by Studying the Micro Relief of the Cuticle Surface of Digging Beetles: Exploring the Sulcophanaeus batesi Pronotum Using Translucent Replicas

For some years, we have been studying the microtopography of soil diggers beetles fromArgentina to find the anti-adhesion pattern to decrease a soil particle adhesion for agricultural machinery components. In 2018, we designed a macro topographic pattern for the upper surface of a steel shovel for...

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Main Authors: Guillen, Noelia Belén, Setten, Lorena, Sánchez, María Victoria, Favret, Eduardo Alfredo
Format: info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford University Press 2023
Subjects:
Coleoptera
Suelo
Microscopia
Soil
Microscopy
Biomimetics
Biomímesis
Antiadherencia
Sulcophanaeus batesi
Biomimética
Non-stick
Biomimicry
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/15309
https://academic.oup.com/mam/article/29/Supplement_1/153/7228310
https://doi.org/10.1093/micmic/ozad067.070
Summary:For some years, we have been studying the microtopography of soil diggers beetles fromArgentina to find the anti-adhesion pattern to decrease a soil particle adhesion for agricultural machinery components. In 2018, we designed a macro topographic pattern for the upper surface of a steel shovel for tilling (agricultural tool) fromthe study of the microtopography (microrelief) of the cuticular surface of the pronotum of Diloboderus abderus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), whose main feature is the presence of dimples randomly distributed.

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