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Bioinspired composites

Making a tooth mimic

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An additive manufacturing technique makes heterogeneous composites with tunable local microstructure and composition.

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Figure 1: Examples of heterogeneous composites.
Figure 2: Tooth mimic.

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  1. John W. C. Dunlop and Peter Fratzl are in the Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany,

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