The grinding tip of the sea urchin tooth exhibits exquisite control over calcite crystal orientation and Mg distribution

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

Volumn 106, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6048-6053

  Ma, Yurong ^a,e   Aichmayer, Barbara ^b   Paris, Oskar ^b   Fratzl, Peter ^b   Meibom, Anders ^c   Metzler, Rebecca A ^d   Politi, Yael ^a   Addadi, Lia ^a   Gilbert, P U P A ^d   Weiner, Steve ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Echinoderms; Grinding tool; Self sharpening; Spectromicroscopy; X ray microdiffraction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRINDING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNESIUM; SEA URCHINS; TOOTH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 65549154810     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810300106     Document Type: Article

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