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How the velvet worm squirts slime
Andrés Concha, Paula Mellado, Bernal Morera-Brenes +3
The rapid squirt of a proteinaceous slime jet endows the ancient velvet worms (Onychophora) with a unique mechanism for defense from predators and for capturing prey by entangling…
Macroscopic magnetic frustration
Paula Mellado, Andres Concha, L. Mahadevan
Although geometrical frustration transcends scale, it has primarily been evoked in the micro and mesoscopic realm to characterize such phases as spin-ice liquids and glasses and to…
A simple model for nanofiber formation by rotary jet-spinning
Paula Mellado, Holly A. McIlwee, Mohammad R. Badrossamay +3
Nanofibers are microstructured materials that span a broad range of applications from tissue engineering scaffolds to polymer transistors. An efficient method of nanofiber producti…