Based on a cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, we newly published a paper in Nature on a new mechanism counteracting bioadhesion by entropic repulsion of orientational fluctuations in cholesterol multilayers. Our results not only reveal this new mechanism of entropic repulsion to be relevant in the surface properties of Collembola, but, also shows the high specificity of the cholesterol chemistry.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06033-4