A Sea Worm's Incredible "Bio-Metal" Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material
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Researchers from TU Wien and University of Vienna studying the bristle worm Perinereis cultrifera discovered that its jaws exhibit properties defining a new material class called 'bio-metals'—combining hardness, strain response, and protein-ion structure, and exhibiting the Nix-Gao nanoindentation size effect previously seen only in metals like copper and silver.
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