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  1. The Role of Vanes in the Damping of Bird Feathers

    Article • Journal of Bionic Engineering, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  2. Aerodynamic vs. frictional damping in primary flight feathers of the pigeon Columba livia

    Article • Applied Physics A, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  3. Tribological mechanism of micro/meso/macroscopic textured surfaces under different normal forces, relative velocities, and sliding directions

    Article • Tribology International, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  4. The damping properties of the foam-filled shaft of primary feathers of the pigeon Columba livia

    Article • The Science of Nature, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  5. The damping and structural properties of dragonfly and damselfly wings during dynamic movement

    Article • Communications Biology, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  6. Adhesion of Individual Attachment Setae of the Spider Cupiennius salei to Substrates With Different Roughness and Surface Energy

    Article • Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, June 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  7. Long-term low friction maintenance and wear reduction on the ventral scales in snakes

    Article • Materials Letters, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  8. Hard X-ray nano-holotomography with a Fresnel zone plate

    Article • Optics Express, November 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  9. Multiple Mechanical Gradients are Responsible for the Strong Adhesion of Spider Attachment Hair

    Article • Advanced Materials, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  10. Mechanical behavior of ctenoid scales: Joint-like structures control the deformability of the scales in the flatfish Solea solea (Pleuronectiformes)

    Article • Acta Biomaterialia, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  11. Hierarchical architecture of spider attachment setae reconstructed from scanning nanofocus X-ray diffraction data

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, January 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  12. Friction-Active Surfaces Based on Free-Standing Anchored Cellulose Nanofibrils

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, September 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  13. Biomechanical properties of predator-induced body armour in the freshwater crustacean Daphnia

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  14. Push or Pull? The light-weight architecture of theDaphnia pulexcarapace is adapted to withstand tension, not compression

    Article • Journal of Morphology, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  15. Influence of the porosity on the photoresponse of a liquid crystal elastomer

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  16. Vertically aligned multi walled carbon nanotubes prevent biofilm formation of medically relevant bacteria

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  17. Tribological properties of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

    Article • Carbon, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  18. Modelling clustering of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

    Article • Interface Focus, May 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Stanislav N. Gorb, Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  19. Catecholamine: Air/Water Interfacial Formation of Freestanding, Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing Catecholamine Janus-Faced Microfilms (Adv. Mater. 45/2014)

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  20. Spider joint hair sensilla: adaptation to proprioreceptive stimulation

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  21. Gluing the ‘unwettable’: soil-dwelling harvestmen use viscoelastic fluids for capturing springtails

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, October 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  22. Air/Water Interfacial Formation of Freestanding, Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing Catecholamine Janus-Faced Microfilms

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  23. Force transformation in spider strain sensors: white light interferometry

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  24. In search of differences between the two types of sensory cells innervating spider slit sensilla (Cupiennius salei Keys.)

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  25. Finite element modeling of arachnid slit sensilla: II. Actual lyriform organs and the face deformations of the individual slits

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  26. Surface force spectroscopic point load measurements and viscoelastic modelling of the micromechanical properties of air flow sensitive hairs of a spider ( Cupiennius salei )

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber

  27. Viscoelastic nanoscale properties of cuticle contribute to the high-pass properties of spider vibration receptor ( Cupiennius salei Keys)

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, April 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Clemens F. Schaber