{"id":137027,"date":"2022-03-17T22:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ultrahard-chiton-teeth-discovery-offers-clues-to-next-generation-advanced-materials"},"modified":"2022-03-17T22:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:02:30","slug":"ultrahard-chiton-teeth-discovery-offers-clues-to-next-generation-advanced-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ultrahard-chiton-teeth-discovery-offers-clues-to-next-generation-advanced-materials","title":{"rendered":"Ultrahard chiton teeth discovery offers clues to next-generation advanced materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrahard-chiton-teeth-discovery-offers-clues-to-next-generation-advanced-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teeth of a mollusk can not only capture and chew food to nurture its body, but the marine choppers also hold insights into creating advanced, lower-cost and environmentally friendly materials.<\/p>\n<p>David Kisailus, UC Irvine professor, and graduate student Taifeng Wang, both in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and engineering, took a close look at the ultrahard teeth of the Northern Pacific Cryptochiton stelleri or gumboot chiton. Their findings are published in the <i>Small Structures<\/i> April 2022 issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings in our work are critical, as it not only provides an understanding of the precision of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural systems<\/a> in mineralization to form high-performance architected materials, but also provides insights into bioinspired synthetic pathways to a new generation of advanced materials in a broad range of applications from wear-resistant materials to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+storage+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy storage systems<\/a>,\u201d said Kisailus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teeth of a mollusk can not only capture and chew food to nurture its body, but the marine choppers also hold insights into creating advanced, lower-cost and environmentally friendly materials. David Kisailus, UC Irvine professor, and graduate student Taifeng Wang, both in materials science and engineering, took a close look at the ultrahard teeth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137027","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}