Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of John Wiley & Sons for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Advanced Materials 21 (2009): 401-406, doi:10.1002/adma.200801197.
Description:
Recent interest in the development of environmentally benign routes to the
synthesis of novel multifunctional materials has resulted in numerous investigations into
structure-function relationships of a wide range of biological systems at the
ultrastructural, micromechanical, and biochemical levels. While much of this research
has concentrated on mineralized structures such as bone, mollusk shells sponge
spicules and echinoderm ossicles, there is an equally broad range of animals
whose skeletal structures are devoid of mineral components.One such group, the
squids (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea), are remarkable in several aspects. In
addition to having an exceptionally well developed brain, sensory systems and skin (for
adaptive coloration), these swift agile predators have eight flexible strong arms, two
fast extensible tentacles, and strong malleable suckers, all of which are muscular
hydrostats.
Description:
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (AM,
PA002–113176 / 1), NIH 5 R01 DE 014672, DANSYNC for supporting the synchrotron
experiments, and the Danish Research Councils, as well as partial support (RTH) by
DARPA DSO BioDynotics Program (Project N66001-03-C-8043).
Keywords:
Cephalopoda
;
Proteinaceous
;
Cellular solids
;
Biomimetic
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Preprint
Format:
application/pdf
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