Continuous directional water transport on the peristome surface of Nepenthes alata

Huawei Chen (), Pengfei Zhang, Liwen Zhang, Hongliang Liu, Ying Jiang, Deyuan Zhang (), Zhiwu Han and Lei Jiang ()
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Huawei Chen: School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University
Pengfei Zhang: School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University
Liwen Zhang: School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University
Hongliang Liu: Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ying Jiang: School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University
Deyuan Zhang: School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University
Zhiwu Han: Key Laboratory for Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University
Lei Jiang: Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature, 2016, vol. 532, issue 7597, 85-89

Abstract: Insects are captured by the carnivorous plant Nepenthes alata when they ‘aquaplane’ on the wet rim, or ‘peristome’, of the plant’s pitcher organ; here it is shown that unidirectional water flow is crucial to the complete wetting of the peristome, and that the underlying mechanism involves multiscale structural features.

Date: 2016
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