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Directional takeoff, aerial righting, and adhesion landing of semiaquatic springtails
Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez, Elio J. Challita, Baekgyeom Kim +4
Springtails (Collembola) have been traditionally portrayed as explosive jumpers with incipient directional takeoff and uncontrolled landing. However, for these collembolans who liv…
Slingshot spiders build tensed underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts
Elio J. Challita, Symone Alexander, Sarah Han +4
We develop a mathematical model to capture the web dynamics of slingshot spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae), which utilize a tension line to deform their orb webs into conical sp…
A polymer-based technique to remove pollutants from soft contact lenses
Katherine Burgener, M. Saad Bhamla
Purpose: To demonstrate an alternative to the rinse and rub (RR) method for cleaning pollutants from the exterior surface of soft contact lenses. This proposed technique is termed…