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Spiky-joint: a bioinspired solution to combine mobility and support article by Khaheshi, A., Gorb, S.N. & Rajabi, H.  has been downloaded over 18k times in less than two weeks since its publication!

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Spiky-joint: a bioinspired solution to combine mobility and support is a part of our recent Special Issue Biological and Biomimetic Materials. Biological and Biomimetic Materials has been edited by Hamed Rajabi, David Taylor and Stanislav Gorb. 

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Khaheshi, A., Gorb, S.N. & Rajabi, H. Spiky-joint: a bioinspired solution to combine mobility and support. Appl. Phys. A 127, 181 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-021-04310-5

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