Dermal Denticles of Three Slowly Swimming Shark Species: Microscopy and Flow Visualization

• Published in: Biomimetics
• Main Authors: Feld, Katrine, Kolborg, Anne Noer, Nyborg, Camilla Marie, Salewski, Mirko, Steffensen, John Fleng, Berg-Sørensen, Kirstine
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2019
• Subjects: Article; Canicula; Greenland; spiny dogfish; Squalus acanthias
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6631580/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31137624; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics4020038

Shark skin has for many years inspired engineers to produce biomimetic structures reducing surface drag or acting as an anti-fouling layer. Both effects are presumed to be consequences of the structure of shark skin that is composed of arrays of so-called dermal denticles. However, the understanding...