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What do we really know about the water repellency of feathers?
Journal of Avian BiologyFeathers are complex integument structures that provide birds with many functions. They are vital to a bird's survival, fundamental to their visual displays, and responsible for the evolutionary radiation of the avian class. Feathers provide a protective
Frank M. S. Muzio, Margaret A. Rubega
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Effect of Biochar Application on Physicochemical and Hydraulic Properties of Loess
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2020 Biochar is important for optimizing soil physical structure and improving soil water retention. The saturated water capacity test, water repellency test, and permeability coefficient test were used to study the effects of biochar additive amount (0, 2, 5,
Xiujuan Yang +3 more
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Designing bioinspired superoleophobic surfaces
APL Materials, 2016 Nature provides a range of functional surfaces, for example, water-repellent or superhydrophobic surfaces, most common among them the lotus leaf. While water-repellency is widespread in nature, oil-repellency is typically limited to surfaces submerged in
Philip S. Brown, Bharat Bhushan
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, 2011 Soil hydrophobicity reported to be a worldwide problem throughout the world and Australia affecting diverse soil types particularly soil with high sand content.
Nowbakht, Maryam
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Use of a highly dispersed chalk additive for the production of concrete for transport structures
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 The concretes used for transport infrastructure facilities are exposed to the active impact of corrosive environment; therefore, such concretes face raised demands as for water repellency, frost resistance and corrosion resistance.
Borziak Olga +4 more
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Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2020 Microinfiltrometers to assess soil water repellency (SWR) are limited to small tension ranges and have different technical setups, hindering a comparison between results from different laboratories.
Sepehrnia Nasrollah +3 more
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Studies of the molecular basis of soil water repellency. [PDF]
, 2005 To identify the causes of water repellency in soils, a range of water repellent soils and wettable control soils, sampled from five countries (Australia, Greece, Portugal, The Netherlands, U.K.), were studied.
Christopher Thomas Llewellyn
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Impacts of grass removal on wetting and actual water repellency in a sandy soil
Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2017 Soil water content and actual water repellency were assessed for soil profiles at two sites in a bare and grasscovered plot of a sand pasture, to investigate the impact of the grass removal on both properties.
Oostindie Klaas +4 more
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Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
Energy Science & EngineeringIn the field of power equipment inspection, the aging condition of composite insulators is often determined by the detection of water repellency. However, the existing detection methods are difficult to effectively extract the water repellency level ...
Shaotong Pei +6 more
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Enhancing Textile Water Repellency with Octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) and Hollow Silica Nanoparticles. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2023 Sheraz M, Choi B, Kim J.
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