The transition from stiff to compliant materials in squid beaks

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5871, 2008, Pages 1816-1819

  Miserez, Ali ^a,b   Schneberk, Todd ^b   Sun, Chengjun ^b   Zok, Frank W ^a   Waite, J Herbert ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPA; ORGANIC MATTER;

CEPHALOPOD; CHITIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTEIN; STIFFNESS; WATER;

ARTICLE; BEAK; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SQUID;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BEAK; BIOMECHANICS; CHITIN; COMPLIANCE; DECAPODIFORMES; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DOPAMINE; FREEZE DRYING; GLUCOSAMINE; HARDNESS; HISTIDINE; PIGMENTATION; PROTEINS; WATER;

CEPHALOPODA; DOSIDICUS GIGAS;

EID: 41349096674     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154117     Document Type: Article

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28. Funding was provided by NIH (grants R01 DE014672 and DE015415), a seed grant from the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program of NSF under award number DMR05-80034, and NASA University Research Engineering and Technology Institute award number NCC-1-02037. A.M. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation through an individual advanced researcher fellowship (grant No PA002-113176/1). C. Salinas (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, La Paz, Mexico), J. C. Weaver, and the crew of the Coroloma (Ventura Harbor, CA) helped with squid beak collections. J. C. Weaver and J. Pavlovic provided technical expertise in sample preparation for high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and in operating ESI-MS and MS/MS, respectively.