LONDON — Limpets' teeth have just taken the top spot on the leaderboard of nature's strongest materials, leaving spiders' silks in the dust.
The humble limpet, usually seen stuck to a rock or a boat's hull, have "extreme strength" according to a new study by researchers at the University of Portsmouth, which was published Tuesday in the Royal Society's journal Interface
Limpets' teeth are made mostly of mineral nanofibres that are "typically many micrometers in length, but only a few tens of nanometers in diameter," according to the study. To figure out just how strong they were, researchers examined them on an atomic level. Read more...
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