Petra Ditsche

Attachment to challenging substrates – fouling, roughness and limits of adhesion in the northern clingfish (<i>Gobiesox maeandricus</i>)

Petra Ditsche, Dylan K. Wainwright, Adam P. Summers · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2014 · 102 citations

Learning from Northern clingfish (<i>Gobiesox maeandricus</i>): bioinspired suction cups attach to rough surfaces

Petra Ditsche, Adam P. Summers · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2019 · 72 citations · Full text

Engineering, Biomimetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering +23

Air Retention under Water by the Floating Fern <i>Salvinia</i>: The Crucial Role of a Trapped Air Layer as a Pneumatic Spring

Daniel Gandyra, Stefan Walheim, Stanislav N. Gorb et al. · Small · 2020 · 45 citations · Full text

Elasticity of the hair cover in air-retaining Salvinia surfaces

Petra Ditsche, Elena V. Gorb, Matthias Mayser et al. · Applied Physics A · 2015 · 34 citations

Self-cleaning Surface, Engineering, Desiccation +5

More than just slippery: the impact of biofilm on the attachment of non-sessile freshwater mayfly larvae

Petra Ditsche, Jan Michels, Alexander Kovalev et al. · Journal of The Royal Society Interface · 2013 · 34 citations · Full text

Biology, Biomimetic System, Engineering +10