Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5597-5600

  Gao, Huajian ^a   Ji, Baohua ^a   Jäger, Ingomar L ^b   Arzt, Eduard ^a   Fratzl, Peter ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; MINERAL; NANOPARTICLE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BONE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; DENTIN; ENAMEL; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINERALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; MINERALS; MINIATURIZATION; OSTREIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOOTH; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0037610831     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0631609100     Document Type: Article

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