What is it about?
This paper discusses what happens when a hot metal plate (steel) mimicking an iron during ironing having soiled is cleansed by sliding it on banana leaves. The banana leaves have special micro-structure called bio-mimetic structure that helps the metal plate to rid itself of the soil. The way or mechanism how it happened is explained in terms of bio-adhesion or how biological materials stick or un-stick materials to it and the effect of this sticking and un-sticking due to temperature
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Why is it important?
This work tries to explain what actually happens at the surface. It will give us a surface model for producing other structures that can do the same cleansing
Perspectives
When we started this work it was the butt of jokes in the laboratory. Nobody ever thought of looking at banana leaves as a cleansing device, it is traditionally used as food wrappers to keep food. However the novelty of this work won a prize as Best paper at the International Tribology Conference held in Tokyo held in September 2015. The award carries a cash prize and certificates. This work illustrates how we learn biological structures help us understand biological phenomena in a perspective from another discipline and apply it to solve problems
PROF CHE HUSNA AZHARI
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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This page is a summary of: The Bio-Adhesion Behaviour of Banana Leaves as Soil Remover at Elevated Temperatures, Tribology Online, January 2016, Japanese Society of Tribologists,
DOI: 10.2474/trol.11.264.
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