A5066494385- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
- Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Fossil Insects in Amber
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2022-2024
Farmingdale State College
2019
Particulate transport from surfaces governs a variety of phenomena including fungal spore dispersal, bioaerosol transmission, and self-cleaning. Here, we report previously unidentified mechanism governing passive particulate removal superhydrophobic surfaces, where particle coalescing with water droplet (∼10 to ∼100 μm) spontaneously launches. Compared discovered coalescence-induced binary jumping, the reported represents more general capillary-inertial dominated mode coupled...
Abstract Insect wing surfaces have nano- and microscale features that enable multi-functionality. Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) are unique in they produce excrete nanoscale particles, called brochocosomes, spread onto the integument by insect. Brochosomes extra-cuticular, removable, make both superhydrophobic anti-reflective, 2 greatly desired properties engineering material science fields. Adaptations like this captured interest of researchers looking to draw inspiration from...
Insects known as leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) produce hierarchically structured nanoparticles brochosomes that are exuded and applied to the insect cuticle, thereby providing camouflage anti-wetting properties aid survival. Although physical of thought depend on leafhopper species, structure-function relationships governing brochosome behavior not fully understood. Brochosomes have complex hierarchical structures morphological heterogeneity across due which a multimodal...
Understanding how insect‐derived biomaterials interact with light has led to new advances and interdisciplinary insights in entomology physics. Leafhoppers are insects that coat themselves highly ordered biological nanostructures known as brochosomes. Brochosomes thought provide a range of protective properties leafhoppers, such hydrophobicity antireflectivity, which inspired the development synthetic brochosomes mimic their structures. Despite recent progress, high antireflective brochosome...
Abstract The 2022 student debates of the Entomological Society America (ESA) happened during Joint Annual Meeting Societies America, Canada, and British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, addressed entomological aspects beyond research education. Student Debates Subcommittee ESA Affairs Committee participating team members communicated for 8 months prepared debates. theme meeting was “Entomology as inspiration: Insects through art, science, culture”. There were 2 unbiased speakers who introduced...
Merope tuber Newman, 1838, commonly known as earwigflies or forcepflies, are an enigmatic member of Mecoptera that from eastern North America. Outside collection localities and anatomy, relatively little is about their behavior, reproduction, any other aspect biology. In this manuscript, we report a new record these uncommonly collected insects in Southold, Suffolk County, New York. While M. Ontario to Florida, distribution very discontinuous - easily accessible field site represents...
Understanding how insect-derived biomaterials interact with light has led to new advances and interdisciplinary insights in entomology physics. Leafhoppers are insects that coat themselves highly ordered biological nanostructures known as brochosomes. Brochosomes thought provide a range of protective properties leafhoppers, such hydrophobicity anti-reflectivity, which inspired the development synthetic brochosomes mimic their structures. Despite recent progress, ultra-high anti-reflective...