[Coral-List] sponges and glass spicules

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 18:42:44 UTC 2017


How sponges spike themselves with glass

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/how-sponges-spike-themselves-glass?utm_campaign=news_daily_2017-10-18&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=1611137

Open-access.

Shaping highly regular glass architectures: A lesson from nature.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/10/eaao2047

Open-access.

Cheers,  Doug

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