The Influence of Material and Roughness on the Settlement and the Adhesive Strength of the Barnacle Balanus Improvisus in the Baltic Sea

Under natural conditions, barnacles, one of the most prominent marine hardfouling organisms, encounter a vast variety of heterogeneous surfaces including artificial ones, such as ship hulls on which they adhere efficiently. Despite intensive research in the last decades, it is still not clear, how m...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Marine Science
Main Authors:	Dennis S. Petersen, Stanislav N. Gorb, Lars Heepe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Subjects:	adhesion wettability roughness barnacle marine bioadhesives biofouling
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.00664/full