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Fishing for compliance

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 692–693 (2008)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Polypterus senegalus.

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Figure 2: The four different layers that make up the fish's scales.

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