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Nikita Klyusov1, Nikolai Garin1,2, Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk1

  • 1Arctic Design Lab, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg 620000, Russia.

Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)
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