supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41688103, 91514302)
The last two decades have witnessed significant advances in our understanding of the evolution of major avian characteristics(1–6)In particular, the spectacular discoveries of fossilized feathered dinosaurs from Chin...
supported by the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China to Xia Wang (ZR2017QD013)
Reconstructing flight abilities of fossil birds from preserved wings and feathers is an important goal if we are to understand the evolution of flight.Wing-shape is known to correlate well with bird flight style[1],bu...
supported by the Key Laboratory of Hexi Corridor Resources Utilization of Gansu Universities (ZX1101)
Superhydrophobic silver nanocoatings with feather-like morphology are fabricated on copper substrates by electroless galvanic deposition. The coating exhibit superhydrophobicity with a contact angle of 156.4° and gli...