Convergent evolution of functional surfaces in biology: surface structure complexity of lizard skin Ghent University
Because they constitute the interface between the organism and its environment, biological surfaces play a vital role in many processes. Recently, new imaging techniques have uncovered that bio-surfaces sport a vast variety of microscale and nanoscale structures that are thought to tailor their interfacing functions. However, exactly how they do that, and why surface ornamentation can differ so dramatically among species, remains heavily ...