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Nature Materials 7, 692 - 693 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2262
Biological materials: Fishing for compliance
Klaus D. Jandt1
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Klaus D. Jandt is at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
e-mail: k.jandt@uni-jena.de
Abstract
Multiscale experimental and computational approaches reveal how an ancient fish protects itself with an armour of scales consisting of four different reinforcing, graded nanocomposite layers.
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