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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Mineralized sclerites in the gorgonian coral

Chenhao Hu, Ravi Tutika, Zhifei Deng, Zian Jia, Liuni Chen, Hongshun Chen, Yang Geng, Xianghui Xiao, Pavel D Shevchenko, Christoph Pierre and 4 more

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Chenhao HuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0009-0009-4498-0091
Ravi TutikaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0003-1644-459X
Zhifei DengDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0002-9905-1494
Zian JiaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Liuni ChenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0001-5863-3837
Hongshun ChenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
Yang GengDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0001-5906-0137
Xianghui XiaoNational Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973.ORCID 0000-0002-7142-3452
Pavel D ShevchenkoAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439.
Christoph PierreMarine Operations, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 03106.
James C WeaverWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Daniel BaumDepartment of Visual and Data-Centric Computing, Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1550-7245
Michael D BartlettDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0002-7391-5135
Ling LiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0002-6741-9741

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Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) RGP016/2023
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Abstract

The soft corals (Cnidaria, Octocorallia), a diverse group of colonial marine invertebrates, can reversibly tune their body stiffness in response to external stimuli. This capability is attributed to their dynamic skeletal systems, which consist of thousands of mineralized skeletal elements, called sclerites, embedded within a gel-like matrix that swells/deswells and unjams/jams the sclerites, thus modulating skeletal stiffness. While sclerite morphology is widely used for species identification, its role in the mechanical performance of a soft coral's skeletal system is largely unknown. Here, we investigated structure-jamming relationships in sclerite-based skeletal architectures using the red gorgonian octocoral

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AnthozoaCalcification, PhysiologicAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaCalcium CarbonateCalcium Carbonatebioinspired designgranular jammingmechanical tunabilityoctocoral scleritesoft robotics

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PMCPMC12595496

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