On the tear resistance of skin

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Wen ^a   Sherman, Vincent R ^a   Gludovatz, Bernd ^b   Schaible, Eric ^b   Stewart, Polite ^b   Ritchie, Robert O ^b,c   Meyers, Marc A ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DEFORMATION; PREDATION RISK; SKIN; SMALL MAMMAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; DERMIS; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR STRESS; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN TEAR RESISTANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERTEBRATE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DERMIS; ELASTICITY; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RABBITS; SKIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84925679658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7649     Document Type: Article

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