Functional adaptation of crustacean exoskeletal elements through structural and compositional diversity: A combined experimental and theoretical study

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Fabritius, Helge Otto ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^b   Friák, Martin ^a,c,d   Nikolov, Svetoslav ^e   Huber, Julia ^b   Seidl, Bastian H M ^b   Ruangchai, Sukhum ^b   Alagboso, Francisca I ^b   Karsten, Simone ^a   Lu, Jin ^f   Janus, Anna M ^a   Petrov, Michal ^a   Zhu, Li Fang ^a   Hemzalová, Pavlna ^a,d   Hild, Sabine ^g   Raabe, Dierk ^a   Neugebauer, Jörg ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF MATERIALS   (Czech Republic)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Bulgaria)

^f INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

amorphous calcium carbonate; amorphous calcium phosphate; Crustacea; cuticle; Decapoda; Isopoda; multi scale modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NANOFIBERS;

AMORPHOUS CALCIUM CARBONATE; AMORPHOUS CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CRUSTACEA; CUTICLE; DECAPODA; ISOPODA; MULTI-SCALE MODELING;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHITIN; MINERAL;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SHELL; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; ISOPODA; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMIMETICS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHITIN; ISOPODA; MINERALS; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 84992092181     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/11/5/055006     Document Type: Article

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