Highlighted in UCI News: UC Irvine scientist takes a lesson from ultrahard, wear-resistant mollusk teeth.
Newly discovered formation process could enhance production of advanced materials!
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Japan’s Okayama and Toho universities conducted a first-of-its-kind study to understand how chitons, mollusks that feed on algae growing on seashore rocks, develop such hard, wear-resistant and magnetic teeth, and what they learned is inspiring new ways to produce advanced materials for a variety of applications. The results are published today in Science.
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