The mechanical beauty of hierarchically organized living structures

By traveling through the inner structure of biological tissues, for instance by means of a scanning or a transmission electron microscope, unexpectedly exact geometries and symmetries in the form of perfect lattices, honeycomb networks, helical macromolecules and polyhedral shapes resulting from min...

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Main Author: Massimiliano Fraldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it 2014-06-01
Series:S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
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Online Access:http://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/res679408_02-FRALDI-11.pdf