Riverside County Innovation Month Brochure

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Millions of years ago, the “smasher” Mantis shrimp, one of nature’s feistiest predators, evolved to develop a complex internal structure. This unique structure forms the mantis shrimp’s damage tolerant club and protects it from self-inflicting damage as it crushes hard-shelled prey with incredible speed and force. By reverse engineering the club, it has been determined that it is not the material, but the structure that provides this unique strength and toughness. This structure is called a Helicoid™.