Growth and structure in abalone shell

By A. Lin, M. Meyers. 2005

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Biomimetics: lessons from nature–an overview (2009, background): “Mechanisms for the growth and self-assembly of aragonitic calcium carbonate found in the shell of the abalone have been studied by Lin & Meyers (2005).”
The Organic-Mineral Interface in Biominerals (2005, background): “It can be speculated that the host animal produces the proteins that stop growth in a periodic manner (Lin and Meyers 2005).”
Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone - Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials (2009, background): “Furthermore, within the nacreous layer itself there are a few sub-layers of weaker material, the so called growth lines [48] which may act as crack deflectors [49].”
Discontinuous crack-bridging model for fracture toughness analysis of nacre (2012, background): “For example, Okumura and de Gennes (2001) proposed the concept of coarse-grained elastic energy to address an edge crack in a nacre-like plate.”
Hierarchical structure and mechanical properties of nacre: a review (2012, unknown): “5,40,47,74–80 In the following, we present the nacre structure, from the mesoscale to the nanoscale: two different columnar and sheet nacre structures in gastropods and bivalves, respectively; mineral bridges which represent the continuation of mineral growth along the c -axis from a preceding layer”
Keratin: Structure, mechanical properties, occurrence in biological organisms, and efforts at bioinspiration (2016, unknown): “The competition between viscoplastic shear of the interscale material and brittle fracture is similar to the response showed by the abalone shell in tension [257].”
Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs (2012, background): “69, the tablets grow with a terraced cone structure [309,312,319,321].”
A review of impact resistant biological and bioinspired materials and structures (2020, background): “In quasi-static testing, the conch shell also dissipates energy by forcing cracks to meander (similar to the phenomenon found in nacre [181,182]) and by allowing microcracking to occur in the”