Leather shark repellent algae and bacteria

Sharks are we not very good reputation, supported by Hollywood masterpieces such as "Jaws." Although we know that statistically more people die from the attack of cows than sharks, however, from one kind of soulless eyes, beads, and razor-sharp teeth blood run cold.

Perhaps this fear for a long time did not allow us to observe in them something very important - nothing ever does not stick to the shark skin. Whales are overgrown with all sorts of sea hangers, and sharks are always smooth. And not because they are terrible.

It turns out that shark skin at all and not the skin, scales and sharp teeth with special-scales that repel everything foreign. If you spend on it from head to tail, it seems smooth, smooth, and if the other side - you can seriously injure yourself. This is because the scales are arranged in the order form a "diamond" pattern. Algae and bacteria live on the skin of the shark did not like - small organisms is difficult to gain a foothold on its unique texture.

Scientists took a little time to learn how to copy the structure, which allows the skin to repel sharks bacteria. And she immediately found a variety of uses. For starters it was created akulopodobnaya cladding for ships - not clinging to any rubbish. Then put into a kind of sharkskin Michael Phelps, it was easier to earn your medals. And finally, I thought - why not get the sharks to save lives?

Until now, we have mastered only one tactic in a war with deadly bacteria - we kill them. That is carefully disinfect everything in the world, and be satisfied with a temporary victory, because the bacteria only better and better adapt to everything that we invent against them.

And finally, scientists have come up with adhesive tape covered the likeness of shark scales, which is supposed to paste over all surfaces in hospitals, where bacteria can accumulate malicious - tables, bedside tables, door handles, and so on. D.

So, on the one hand - a shark terrible creature that is capable of easily bite off an arm or leg, the other - it can also protect against infection when you are brought to the hospital to sew the limb back.

Source: www.mixstuff.ru

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