{"id":358,"date":"2012-02-06T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:27:06","slug":"researchers-developing-sand-resistant-material-based-on-scorpion-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/researchers-developing-sand-resistant-material-based-on-scorpion-armor\/2012\/02\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Developing Sand Resistant Material Based on Scorpion Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in China are working on a new armor based on the yellow fat-tail scorpion&#8217;s armor. \u00a0The scorpion&#8217;s armor has a natural set of grooves that causes the air to flow over them in a way that minimizes it&#8217;s contact with sand. \u00a0By scanning the scorpion&#8217;s armor to study and replicate this pattern, they were able to create surfaces that limit the erosion and damage caused by sand during windy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this technology can make its way into our troop&#8217;s equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-359 aligncenter\" title=\"Point Cloud of Scorpion's Back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/scorpion-back.gif\" alt=\"Point Cloud of Scorpion's Back\" width=\"500\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/scorpion-back.gif 500w, https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/scorpion-back-300x272.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original Article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode.cfm?id=scorpion-armor-inspires-sand-resist-12-02-01\">Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in China are working on a new armor based on the yellow fat-tail scorpion&#8217;s armor. \u00a0The scorpion&#8217;s armor has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ondutygear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}