Flexible design in the stomatopod dactyl club

Flexible design in the stomatopod dactyl club

The stomatopod is a fascinating animal that uses its weaponized appendage dactyl clubs for breaking mollusc shells. Dactyl clubs are a well studied example of biomineralized hierarchical structures. Most research has focused on the regions close to the action, namely the impact region and surface co...

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Main Authors: Thorbjørn Erik Køppen Christensen, Jia Qing Isaiah Chua, Nina Kølln Wittig, Mads Ry Vogel Jørgensen, Innokenty Kantor, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, Ali Miserez, Henrik Birkedal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Union of Crystallography 2023-05-01
Series:IUCrJ
Subjects:
biomineralization
stomatopods
crystal orientation
composite materials
polymorphism
Online Access:http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2052252523002075

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