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Slender structures

Journal Club for August 2022: The route towards engineered multifunctional hair and fur

Submitted by tawfick on

Sameh Tawfick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (tawfick [at] illinois.edu)

 

Birds have feathers, animals have fur, humans and plants have hair, and mimicking these multifunctional morphologies will undoubtedly improve future robots, buildings, and drones 

 

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