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But if Sharklet really works, we may soon owe them our lives.

Sharklet, with Brennan as its chief scientific officer, decided to put that adaptation to good use.

I've just been admiring your sharklet," Michelle said, "and the art collection.

By gestation's end, just one sharklet emerges from each uterine chamber.

Engineers at technology company Sharklet recreated the texture, finding that the material helped reduce algae settling by 85%.

And on the Sharklet surface?

So Sharklet built a material for hospital surfaces that mimics a shark's dermal ventricles.

Sharklet's texture is a combination of "ridge" and "ravine", at a micrometer scale.

According to Spiecker, the Sharklet film can reduce the transfer of bacteria on a high-touch surface by 97 percent.

Sharklet's topography creates mechanical stress on settling bacterium, a phenomenon known as mechanotransduction.

In one test, she's going to see if Sharklet can repel bacteria the way shark skin repels algae and barnacles.

Two pieces of plastic - one smooth, one patterned with Sharklet - are subjected to bacteria and incubated for 24 hours.

Researchers examined the nanoscale structure of sharks and designed an anti fouling surface known commercially as Sharklet.

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Coating surfaces with Sharklet greatly reduces the growth of bacteria, due to the nano-scale texture of the product's surface.

Sharklet, manufactured by Sharklet Technologies, is a plastic sheet product.

In 2009 Airbus launched a new blended winglet design which the company called a "Sharklet", designed to enhance the payload-range performance of the A320 Family.

Dr. Shravanthi Reddy, director of research for Sharklet, said the medical community has for a long time been focused on killing as much existing bacteria s possible.

Airbus Industrie says the aircraft incorporates new, more-efficient engines and large "Sharklet" wingtip devices that together produce about 15 percent in fuel savings and other benefits.

Similar to actual shark skin, the patterned nature of Sharklet AF shows microstructural differences in three dimensions with a corresponding ERI of 9.5.

"Sharks' denticles are set up like a diamond pattern," he said, showing Pogue a clear plastic sheet he called a Sharklet, which also had a diamond pattern.

"By staying clean while moving slow, sharks defy a basic principle of the ocean," says Mark Spiecker, the CEO of Sharklet Technologies.

Sharklet Technologies, however, is pioneering a new use for the fearsome fish's skin, which is constructed of sharp, interlaced ridges that together make an inhospitable environment for microbes.

The inspiration for Sharklet's texture was made by analyzing the texture of shark skin, which does not attract barnacles or other biofouling, unlike ship hulls and other smooth surfaces.

Sharklet material was developed by Dr. Tony Brennan, material science and engineering professor at University of Florida, Pearl Harbor while trying to improve antifouling technology for ships and submarines.