Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature

By Huajian Gao, B. Ji, I. Jäger, Eduard Arzt, P. Fratzl. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

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Mineralized structures in nature: Examples and inspirations for the design of new composite materials and biomaterials (2010, background): “In a pure fracture-mechanics perspective Gao and coworkers showed that nanometer scale plays a key role in allowing these biological systems to achieve their superior mechanical properties [11], [12].”
Mechanical properties of nanostructure of biological materials (2004, methodology): “This question has been studied by Gao et al. (2003).”