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Nature Materials 7, 347 - 348 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2176
Biomimetic materials: Marine inspiration
Ravi V. Bellamkonda1
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Ravi V. Bellamkonda is in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
e-mail: ravi@gatech.edu
Abstract
Sea cucumber skin is the architectural basis for polymer nanocomposites that can adapt their mechanical properties in response to biomedically relevant chemical stimuli, in a similar fashion to the animals' self-defence mechanism.
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