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Surfaces and interfaces

Reptile skin inspires super-slippery steel surfaces

07 Jul 2015 Hamish Johnston
Slippery scales: the two low-friction surfaces
The skins of two slithery reptiles – the ball python and a type of lizard known as the sandfis

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