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Nature Materials 7, 692–693 (1 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2262
Biological materials: Fishing for compliance
Abstract
Nature is a master in the design of complex hierarchical materials in the plant and animal kingdom. These assemblies have various functions including, perhaps most importantly, the maintenance of structural integrity when the living organism is challenged by external forces.
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