Biomimetic Ratchets – of snails and snakes
Dec 2003
Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England and Lehigh University have shown that it is possible to make a strip of hydrogel mimic the movements of a snail, inchworm, and snake.
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Biomimetic ratcheting motion of lubricated hydrogel filaments,
Mahadevan, L., S. Daniel and M. Chaudhury, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) , 101, 23-26, 2004.
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Motility driven by macromolecular springs and ratchets,
Mahadevan, L. and P. Matsudaira, Science , 288, 95-99, 2000.
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Prof. L. Mahadevan
