One September morning, I drove out with my friend A Dai into the Zhejiang countryside, through a lush greenness of paddy fields, bamboo groves and lotus ponds, into the teabushed hills.
To be used in this paper, the LOTUS corpus was divided into two sets: LOTUS-TRN and LOTUS-DEV.
In addition, new perspectives on lotus leaf-inspired functional platforms in various engineering fields are discussed.
A threshold rug represented in a stone carving (now in the Louvre) from the 8th-century-bc Assyrian palace of Khorsabad (in modern Iraq) has an allover field pattern of quatrefoils (four-leafed motifs), framed by a lotus border.
The findings provide a novel theoretical basis for controllable polymer "bionic lotus" surface and will further promote practical application in many engineering fields such as drag-reduction and anti-icing.
Microstructures of the bionic lotus polymer coating surfaces were observed by a scanning electron microscopy JSM-5600LVV and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), JEOL, Akishima, Japan).
The lotus-type n-HA/PU scaffold has promising prospect in bone tissue regeneration field.
Starting with the discovery of hierarchically structured superhydrophobic lotus-surfaces [2, 15, 16] and the drag-reducing shark skin [17, 18], biomimetic surface technologies (e.g., lotus-, shark-, gecko-, moth eye-, and salvinia-effect) became a most important field [1, 19, 20].
And you could believe him capable of almost anything from the paintings in this show, which range from a crisp Japanese-inspired image of vermilion lotuses titled "Buddha's Manifestation of Joyfulness," to a near-abstract blend of American Color Field painting and Chinese landscape.
Salix tetrasperma, Aesculus indica, Diospyros lotus, Morus alba/nigra, Celtis australis/caucasica, Grewia oppositifolia, Anisomeles indica and Debregeasia salicifolia are primarily available on the cropping field boundaries.
