Origin of flaw-tolerance in nacre

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Zaiwang ^a   Li, Xiaodong ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; NACRE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; NACRE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84877761048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01693     Document Type: Article

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