Snails are slimy. But there's more to that goo of theirs than meets the eye. It's a fact that may help inspire the creation of new materials.
A new study finds that snails can modulate the properties of their slime.
Franziska Jehle/Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
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Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
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