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The “Egg of Columbus” for Making the World's Toughest Fibres

In this letter we present the “Egg of Columbus” for making fibres with unprecedented toughness: a slider, in the simplest form just a knot, is introduced as frictional element to dissipate additional energy and thus demonstrating the existence of a previously “hidden” toughness. The proof of concept...

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Autor principal: Pugno, Nicola M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24695084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093079