Surface structure and tribology of legless squamate reptiles.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of The Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

• Publication date

  2017-11-08

• Fields of study

  Biology, Materials Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.11.008PMID 29352677
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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