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Functional aspects of the hydration of two natural materials – insect cuticle and pine-cone bract
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
Abstract
Water is a somewhat neglected parameter in the mechanical properties of biological materials. In some instances it takes over a role of actuation, even in dead structures.
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