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Intertidal exposure favors the soft-studded armor of adaptive mussel coatings

The mussel cuticle, a thin layer that shields byssal threads from environmental exposure, is a model among high-performance coatings for being both hard and hyper-extensible. However, despite avid interest in translating its features into an engineered material, the mechanisms underlying this perfor...

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Autores principales: Monnier, Christophe A., DeMartini, Daniel G., Waite, J. Herbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05952-5