Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have discovered that limpets - small aquatic snail-like creatures with conical shells - have teeth with biological structures so strong they could be copied to make cars, boats and planes of the future. The research was published in February in the Royal Society journal 'Interface'. The study examined the small-scale mechanical behaviour of teeth from limpets using "atomic force microscopy", a method used to pull apart materials all the way down to the level of the atom.
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