Will 3D-printing fake rhino horns stop poaching? | Vox
2021年10月18日 · Some researchers argue that selling fake horns could disrupt the market and help save rhinos, while a more vocal group of organizations says doing so could subvert law enforcement and prop up...
Fact check: Company 3D-printed rhino horns to help slow down …
2021年6月10日 · One widespread social media post claims a biotech company found the solution. "A biotech startup has managed to 3-D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual...
Creating artificial Rhino Horns from Horse Hair - Nature
2019年11月8日 · As the key structural material for the manufacture of our artificial rhino horns we used horsetail hair because of its phylogenetic origin (which suggests comparable chemical keratin...
Scientists Created Fake Rhino Horn. But Should We Use It?
2019年11月25日 · Now, in the hopes of driving down the value of rhino horn and reducing poaching even more, scientists have created a convincing artificial rhino horn made from horsehair.
Creating artificial Rhino Horns from Horse Hair - PMC
2019年11月8日 · As the key structural material for the manufacture of our artificial rhino horns we used horsetail hair because of its phylogenetic origin (which suggests comparable chemical keratin composition) and its homologous morphological structure (which suggests comparable mechanical properties).
Fake rhino horn:Scientists hope fake rhino horn can help save …
2019年11月8日 · Poachers in South Africa alone are causing the wild animals to disappear at a rate of three a day. But now, a group of researchers have shown that a potential solution — making convincing rhino...
Creating artificial Rhino Horns from Horse Hair - ResearchGate
2019年11月8日 · Although extant rhinocerotids are unique in possessing a massive entirely keratinous horn that approximates the functions of keratin-and-bone horns such as those of bovid artiodactyls, the...
Creating fake rhino horn with horse hair to help save the endangered ...
2019年11月8日 · Scientists from the University of Oxford and Fudan University, Shanghai, have invented a way to create fake rhino horn using horse hair. Published in Scientific Reports they hope their method will provide a blueprint to create credible fakes that could eventually flood a market which has decimated the wild rhino population.
Creating artificial Rhino Horns from Horse Hair
2019年11月8日 · We bundled together tail hairs of the rhino’s ubiquitous near relative, the horse, to be glued together with a bespoke matrix of regenerated silk mimicking the collagenous component of the real horn. This approach allowed us to fabricate composite structures that were confusingly similar to real rhino horn in look, feel and properties.
Fake rhino horn invented to ruin poachers' market - BBC
2019年11月8日 · Researchers at the University of Oxford and Fudan University in China have found a way of making fake rhino horn cheaply from horse hair. Demand for rhino horn has been blamed for driving...