Like a slice of pizza, a curvature could give fish fins their strength

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 15:32 in Biology & Nature

Applying curvature to the base of a fish fin can increase its stiffness, an effect that could underlie the maneuverability of fish and provide a new design concept for robotic swimmers, engineers have shown.

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