{"id":132802,"date":"2021-12-21T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/meet-the-worm-with-a-jaw-of-metal"},"modified":"2021-12-21T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:22:32","slug":"meet-the-worm-with-a-jaw-of-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/meet-the-worm-with-a-jaw-of-metal","title":{"rendered":"Meet the worm with a jaw of metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-worm-with-a-jaw-of-metal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the bristle worm jaw is both metal-like and yet not. As Zelaya-Lainez puts it, \u201cHere we are dealing with a completely different material, but interestingly, the metal atoms still provide strength and deformability there, just like in a piece of metal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observing the creation of a metal-like material from biological processes is a bit of a surprise and may suggest new approaches to materials development. \u201cBiology could serve as inspiration here,\u201d says Hellmich, \u201cfor completely new kinds of materials. Perhaps it is even possible to produce high-performance materials in a biological way \u2014 much more efficiently and environmentally friendly than we manage today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the bristle worm jaw is both metal-like and yet not. As Zelaya-Lainez puts it, \u201cHere we are dealing with a completely different material, but interestingly, the metal atoms still provide strength and deformability there, just like in a piece of metal.\u201d Observing the creation of a metal-like material from biological processes is a bit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132802","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}