An international team of scientists from the Univeristy of Manchester, Univeristy of Bristol and Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have studied the skeletons of heterostracans using high energy x ...
Study investigated the structure-property relationship of the coral’s sclerite-based biological granular jamming system.
Doctoral student Chenhao Hu holds up a 3D-printed model of a sclerite, the tiny mineral particles that make up the coral's skeleton and whose unique shape allows the organism to tune its own stiffness ...