{"id":124692,"date":"2021-07-08T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/insects-use-lubricants-to-minimize-friction-and-wear-in-leg-joints"},"modified":"2021-07-08T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:22:19","slug":"insects-use-lubricants-to-minimize-friction-and-wear-in-leg-joints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/insects-use-lubricants-to-minimize-friction-and-wear-in-leg-joints","title":{"rendered":"Insects use lubricants to minimize friction and wear in leg joints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/insects-use-lubricants-to-minimize-friction-and-wear-in-leg-joints2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is beetlejuice stronger than teflon?<\/p>\n<p>A protein-based lubricating substance is discovered in the femoro-tibial joint of the darkling beetle <i>Zophobas morio<\/i> (Insecta). The substance extrudes to the contacting areas within the joint and appears in a form of filiform flows and short cylindrical fragments. The extruded lubricating substance effectively reduces the coefficient of sliding friction to the value of 0.13 in the tribosystem <i>glass\/lubricant\/glass<\/i>. This value is significa\u2026 See More.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is beetlejuice stronger than teflon? A protein-based lubricating substance is discovered in the femoro-tibial joint of the darkling beetle Zophobas morio (Insecta). The substance extrudes to the contacting areas within the joint and appears in a form of filiform flows and short cylindrical fragments. The extruded lubricating substance effectively reduces the coefficient of sliding friction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}