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Resilin microjoints: a smart design strategy to avoid failure in dragonfly wings

Dragonflies are fast and manoeuvrable fliers and this ability is reflected in their unique wing morphology. Due to the specific lightweight structure, with the crossing veins joined by rubber-like resilin patches, wings possess strong deformability but can resist high forces and large deformations d...

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Autores principales: Rajabi, H., Shafiei, A., Darvizeh, A., Gorb, S. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5155300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27966641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39039