A Spider's Fang: How to Design an Injection Needle Using Chitin‐Based Composite Material
By Yael Politi, Matthias Priewasser, E. Pippel, P. Zaslansky, J. Hartmann, S. Siegel, Chenghao Li, F. Barth, P. Fratzl. 2012
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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomaterials, Mechanics of Materials
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Citations in the corpus
- Poriferan Chitin as a Versatile Template for Extreme Biomimetics (2015, unknown): “Chitin plays a major role in biological structural materials with significant physical attributes, such as lobster shells [44], the mineralized dactyl club of the stomatopods [97,112], diatoms cell [20], glass sponges [52], copepod teeth’s [115], spider fangs [116] and nacre [117].”
- Anisotropic Friction of the Ventral Scales in the Snake Lampropeltis getula californiae (2014, background): “[43]: the indentation modulus of the spider fang parallel to the fibers was considerably higher than perpendicular to the”
- Functional gradients and heterogeneities in biological materials: Design principles, functions, and bioinspired applications (2017, background): “1, the spider fang utilizes multi-level structural gradients from the arrangement of nano-sized constituents to its macroscale shape and geometry [48,153].”