Sugary interfaces mitigate contact damage where stiff meets soft
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Sugary interfaces mitigate contact damage where stiff meets soft
The byssal threads of the fan shell Atrina pectinata are non-living functional materials intimately associated with living tissue, which provide an intriguing paradigm of bionic interface for robust load-bearing device. An interfacial load-bearing protein (A. pectinata foot protein-1, apfp-1) with L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA)-containing and mannose-binding domains has been characterized ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11923