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Sponge Fibers Reveal Unique Structural Properties

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MURRAY HILL, N.J., July 8 -- Natural "optical fibers" that grow at the base of a tropical sea sponge also have unique structural properties that can teach engineers and architects a lot about building remarkably strong structures from extremely fragile materials, scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have discovered. "Nature has found a way to perfect inherently fragile materials by employing standard engineering principles from the nano to the macro scale," said Bell Labs materials scientist Joanna Aizenberg, the lead researcher on the team. "This creature's skeleton is a textbook...Read full article

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