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Taking Hints from Whales: The Mysticete Oral Baleen Filter and Biomimetic Applications to Microplastics Removal Systems
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Researchers examined how mysticete whale baleen plates achieve highly efficient fine-particle filtration and proposed biomimetic engineering principles derived from their hierarchical fiber architecture as a blueprint for designing next-generation microplastic removal systems.
Filtration is widespread in the biological world at many levels, from cells and organs to wetland ecosystems. As a basic yet crucial process of separating solid material from a fluid medium, filtration is also ubiquitous in the engineered human world, with collected...
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