Hypothesis: Bones toughness arises from the suppression of elastic waves

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Davies, Benjamin ^a,b   King, Alice ^b   Newman, Peter ^a,b   Minett, Andrew ^b   Dunstan, Colin R ^a   Zreiqat, Hala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BONE; ENERGY BALANCE; NACRE; PHONON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; HARDNESS; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOUND;

NANOMATERIAL;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMIMETICS; BONE AND BONES; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS; SOUND;

EID: 84947928812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07538     Document Type: Article

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