title: Special adhesion of natural honeycomb walls and their application.
abstract: In this paper, we investigated the wettability and adhesive behavior of the natural honeycomb wall for water and honey droplets. The cell walls have hydrophobic and highly adhesive properties for both water and honey in air. This highly adhesive cell wall was used as a "mechanical hand" to transfer micro-droplets. These findings will help us to comprehensively understand the surface properties of honeycomb walls, and will provide a novel strategy for achieving functional biomimetics based on honeycombs.
authors: School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, 100191 China. henglp@iccas.ac.cn.
authors: Tianqi
authors: T
authors: Guo
authors: Muchen
authors: M
authors: Li
authors: Liping
authors: L
authors: Heng
authors: Lei
authors: L
authors: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000268:Adhesiveness; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D002473:Cell Wall; D013499:Surface Properties; D014867:Water; D017155:Wettability
chemical_list: D014867:Water