Atomistic and continuum studies of flaw tolerant nanostructures in biological systems

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 844, Issue , 2005, Pages 207-212

  Buehler, Markus J ^a   Yao, Haimin ^b   Ji, Baohua ^c   Gao, Huajian ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIOMATERIALS; BONE; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; BIOCOMPOSITES; NANODEVICES; SMALL-SCALE MATERIALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 20344384271     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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