First images of barnacle larva's footprint
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 15:21
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fouling or growth of sea organisms, such as barnacles, on ships` hulls causes damage costing many billions of euros annually. In order to prevent this fouling, In Yee Phang of the University of Twente (Netherlands) used nanotechnology to investigate how barnacles colonize a surface. This is the first time that the existence of barnacle cyprid larvae ‘footprints` has been demonstrated. Phang will be awarded his doctorate on 24 October at the faculty of Science and Technology.
