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Multifunctionality of chiton biomineralized armor with an integrated visual system

Published:2015-11-20 Issue:6263 Volume:350 Page:952-956
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Li Ling¹²,Connors Matthew J.¹,Kolle Mathias³,England Grant T.²,Speiser Daniel I.⁴,Xiao Xianghui⁵,Aizenberg Joanna²⁶⁷,Ortiz Christine¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.

2. John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

4. Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.

5. Experimental Facilities Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.

6. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

7. Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Abstract

A set of strong eyes Although many biological tissues serve more than one purpose, rarely are they optimized to do multiple tasks well. When you try to optimize for one functionality, it comes at the expense of another. Li et al. investigated the biomineralized armor of the small mollusc chiton Acanthopleura granulata . The armor appears to be optimized for both mechanical strength and for image capture by hundreds of integral aragonite-based lenses. Science , this issue p. 952

Funder

National Science Foundation

NSF

U.S. Army Research Office

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

National Security Science and Engineering

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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