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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Physics of unravelling and micromechanics of hagfish threads.

Mohammad Tanver Hossain, Dakota Piorkowski, Andrew Lowe, Wonsik Eom, Abhishek Shetty, Sameh H Tawfick, Douglas S Fudge, Randy H Ewoldt

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Design Principles for Deployable Fibers Inspired by Hagfish Defense.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  2. Physics of unravelling and micromechanics of hagfish threads.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Mohammad Tanver HossainDepartment of Mechanical Science and Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7235-0427
Dakota PiorkowskiSchmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Andrew LoweSchmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Wonsik EomDepartment of Mechanical Science and Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Abhishek ShettyRheology Division, Anton Paar USA Inc, Ashland, VA, USA.
Sameh H TawfickDepartment of Mechanical Science and Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3645-527X
Douglas S FudgeSchmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9569-1374
Randy H EwoldtDepartment of Mechanical Science and Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2720-9712

Funding

Defense Sciences Office, DARPA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hagfish slime is a unique biological material composed of mucus and protein threads that rapidly deploy into a cohesive network when deployed in seawater. The forces involved in thread deployment and interactions among mucus and threads are key to understanding how hagfish slime rapidly assembles into a cohesive, functional network. Despite extensive interest in its biophysical properties, the mechanical forces governing thread deployment and interaction remain poorly quantified. Here, we present the first direct

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HagfishesModels, BiologicalMucusAnimalsBiomechanical Phenomenaanimal defencehagfish slimemicromechanical forcesprotein threadsskein unravelling

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PMID40858244
PMCPMC12380483

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