Sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 612-616

  Fantner, Georg E ^a   Hassenkam, Tue ^a   Kindt, Johannes H ^a   Weaver, James C ^a   Birkedal, Henrik ^a   Pechenik, Leonid ^a   Cutroni, Jacqueline A ^a   Cidade, Geraldo A G ^b   Stucky, Galen D ^a   Morse, Daniel E ^a   Hansma, Paul K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELLS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALS; MOLECULES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BONE FRACTURE; FIBRILS; ORGANIC MATRIX; SACRIFICIAL BONDS;

BONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CATTLE; FRACTURE; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CATTLE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS;

EID: 23244461731     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1428     Document Type: Article

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