Bristle Worms: Nature's 3D Printers Build Bristles Bit by Bit miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nature's 3D printer: Bristle worms form bristles piece by piece phys.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phys.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bristle worms have remarkably stable jaws. They are made of a very unusual material containing protein structures and metal atoms. Scientists at TU Wien have now been able to analyze and explain the properties of these structures, which could lead to novel industrially usable materials.