Science Magazine highlights our work with Prof. Jean-Luc Thiffeault (UW Madison) on “Unraveling hagfish slime”.
We calculate how the thread components can unravel in a fraction of a second during an attack due to viscous drag of the surrounding flow. The article in the Journal of The Royal Society is here.
Other press reports can be found here: New Scientist, Popular Science, Newsweek, Phys.org, UW Madison, ScienceDaily, arsTechnica
Enjoy the following demonstration of the force-induced unraveling of a hagfish skein (~ 100 micron)