Biological Adhesive Systems From Nature to Technical and Medical App
There is a growing need for new adhesives for technical and medical applications! The nature uses adhesion in a host of ways and we can learn a great deal from this. Adhesive systems of potential interest need to be thoroughly analyzed and the common unde
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Janek von Byern • Ingo Grunwald Editors
Biological Adhesive Systems From Nature to Technical and Medical Application
SpringerWienNewYork
Dr. Dipl.-Biol. Janek von Byern Core Facility Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research Faculty of Life Science University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Dr. Dipl.-Biol. Ingo Grunwald Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) Department of Adhesive Bonding Technology and Surfaces, Adhesives and Polymer Chemistry Bremen, Germany
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Foreword J. Herbert Waite
Like many graduate students before and after me I was mesmerized by a proposition expressed years earlier by Krogh (1929) – namely that “for many problems there is an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied”. This opinion became known as the August Krogh Principle and remains much discussed to this day, particularly among comparative physiologists (Krebs, 1975). The words “problems” and “animal” are key because they highlight the two fundamental and complementary foci of biological research: (1) expertise about an animal (zoo-centric), which is mostly observational and (2) a mechanistic analysis of some problem in the animal’s life history or physiology (problem-centric), which is usually a hypothesis-driven investigation. Among the biologists of my acquaintance, there are few if any who are only one or the other; instead, most are different blends of the two with a slight polarization towards one of the two foci. If she loved her animal beyond anything else, the zoo-c
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