Development of new biomaterial with super strength inspired by limpets - Phys.org

An interdisciplinary team of biologists, chemists and engineers from the University of Portsmouth have become the first to successfully grow a limpet inspired biomaterial with extreme strength.

The Formation Zone is critical in radula development and regeneration. Light microscopy images showing a, the Formation Zone (FZ) and be, Stages I to IV of the limpet radula respectively (scale bar =… [+6825 chars]

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