Enamel-like apatite crown covering amorphous mineral in a crayfish mandible

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bentov, Shmuel ^a   Zaslansky, Paul ^b,c   Al Sawalmih, Ali ^b   Masic, Admir ^b   Fratzl, Peter ^b   Sagi, Amir ^a   Berman, Amir ^a   Aichmayer, Barbara ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CHITIN; FLUORAPATITE; HYDROXYAPATITE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; CRAYFISH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENAMEL; HARDNESS; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; APATITES; ASTACOIDEA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DENTAL ENAMEL; DURAPATITE; MANDIBLE; MOLAR;

EID: 84864310352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1839     Document Type: Article

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