15-Sep-2021 | Market Research Store
Researchers from the University of Colorado,Boulder, have recently published their findings to uncover the engineering secrets behind the solidarity of what makes fish fins so strong, yet so flexible. The team states that the current findings will pave the way for producing durable robotic surgical tools for advanced applications or produce airplane wings with the ability to change their shape at the push of a button. The team quotes that the fascination behind the research is the list of remarkable feats that the fins can achieve given the dexterity and the fact that they do not contain a single muscle.
The team explored the fact that these fins are composed of tiny stiff “ray” like structures and these rays can be manipulated individually like our fingers. On average, the team counted 20 or 30 of these rays structures on a general category of fish. In their research paper, the team simulated and printed 3D components in order to mimic the fins design in order to develop a better understanding into their biomechanics and agility factors. They assert that the key to the rigid yet flexible structure of these fins lies in the design in the manner that each ray in the fin is made up of multiple instances of hard material stacked up on top of a softer layer of collagen.
The team believes that this structural integrity gives the fins a perfect balance between bouncy and stiff which gives the fish the immense ability to glide through water and remain extremely mobile. The team further explains that such a rare combination of material are a hot commodity and the application list can be rather quite long and useful. The team further explored the possibility to examine the mechanical properties of these fins by running computer simulations and they soon believe that this material can be replicated.
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