Mechanical design of hedgehog spines and porcupine quills

By Julian F. V. Vincent, P. Owers. 2009

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Subfields: Paleontology

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1. Po-Yu Chen
2. J. McKittrick
3. M. Meyers

Citations in the corpus

• Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs (2012, background): “The cores have several morphologies, depending on the species: isotropic (Erethizontidae and echidnas), isotropic with longitudinal stiffenners (Hystricidae) or a honeycomb with longitudinal cortex ribs and septae (hedgehog) [291,420,421].”
• Keratin: Structure, mechanical properties, occurrence in biological organisms, and efforts at bioinspiration (2016, unknown): “Some keratinized materials with interesting properties, such as skin [137], quills [138,139], fingernails [140], horns [141,142], whelk egg capsules [116], and bird feathers [143,144], have been studied, with the hopes to obtain mechanisms and principles to design new functional materials, such as l”