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. 2018 Aug 22;115(36):E8358–E8367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1804239115

Table 1.

Summary of surface roughness properties

Material Sa, μm Ra, μm Maximum height, μm
Glass* 0.02 0.01 0.19
Wood (pine) 10.60 0.68 212.07
Sandstone 75.13 1.16 581.12
Mesh (steel) 174.26 1.15 665.39

The arithmetic mean area roughness, Sa (asperities), arithmetic mean line roughness discretized by the average spine tip radius of 23 _m, Ra (friction), and height range of each material.

*

The transparency and reflectivity may have added noise to the measurements.