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Christoph Neinhuis
Researcher at Dresden University of Technology
Publications - 189
Citations - 18657
Christoph Neinhuis is an academic researcher from Dresden University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aristolochia & Peperomia. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 176 publications receiving 16573 citations. Previous affiliations of Christoph Neinhuis include Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology & University of Bonn.
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Superhydrophobicity in perfection: the outstanding properties of the lotus leaf
TL;DR: The lotus plant has successfully developed an excellent protection for this delicate epistomatic surface of its leaves, particularly of the upper side of the lotus leaf, which can be deduced from the fact that the stomata are located in the upper epidermis.
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Wettability and Contaminability of Insect Wings as a Function of Their Surface Sculptures
TL;DR: Wing surfaces of 97 insect species from virtually all relevant major groups were examined by high resolution scanning-electron-microscopy, revealing a correlation between the wettability and the “SM Index” and some insects with very unwettable wings show a highly significant “self-cleaning” effect under the influence of rain or dew.
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Noncoding plastid trnT-trnF sequences reveal a well resolved phylogeny of basal angiosperms
Thomas Borsch,Khidir W. Hilu,Dietmar Quandt,Volker Wilde,Christoph Neinhuis,Wilhelm Barthlott +5 more
TL;DR: A phylogeny for basal angiosperms based on noncoding, fast‐evolving sequences of the chloroplast genome region trnT‐trnF is presented, showing the New Caledonian Amborella as the sister to all other angios perms, followed by Nymphaeaceae and an Austrobaileya–Illicium–Schisandra clade.
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Quantitative assessment to the structural basis of water repellency in natural and technical surfaces
TL;DR: The results impressively demonstrated the importance of roughening on different length scales for water-repellency, since extremely papillose surfaces, having an additional wax layer, are able to resist up to 70% methanol.
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Structure–function relationships of the plant cuticle and cuticular waxes — a smart material?
TL;DR: The cuticle is the main interface between plants and their environment, whose properties are dynamically modified by the plant in response to internal and external stimuli, and combines many aspects attributed to smart materials.