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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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
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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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