Biomimetics: Learning from diamonds

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3148-3152

  Sommer, Andrei P ^a   Zhu, Dan ^a   Franke, Ralf Peter ^a   Fecht, Hans Joerg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMIMETICS; CELL DEATH;

APOPTOSIS; CELLULAR RECOGNITIONS; CONTACT EVENTS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; IN PROCESSES; INTERFACIAL WATER STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL WATERS; NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMONDS;

DIAMONDS;

EID: 58049137234     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2008.0382     Document Type: Article

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