Protection mechanisms of the iron-plated armor of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent gastropod

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

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 987-992

  Yao, Haimin ^a   Dao, Ming ^a   Imholt, Timothy ^b   Huang, Jamie ^a   Wheeler, Kevin ^a   Bonilla, Alejandro ^c   Suresh, Subra ^a   Ortiz, Christine ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Exoskeleton; Mollusc; Nanoindentation; Nanomechanics

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSOMALLON SQUAMIFERUM; DEEP SEA; GASTROPOD; GEOMETRY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MICROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; NEOPHALINA; PELTOSPIRIDAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GASTROPODA; MARINE BIOLOGY;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 75749156284     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912988107     Document Type: Article

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