Nanoscale Structural and Mechanical Characterization of a Natural Nanocomposite Material: The Shell of Red Abalone

By Xiaodong Li, Wei-Che Chang, Y. Chao, Rizhi Wang, Ming Chang. 2004

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone - Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials (2009, background): “5i and i0) [1,10], recent scanning probe microscopy observations suggests, indirectly, that the tablet are nanostructured, with grains in the 30 nm range [56,57].”
Skeletal mineralogy in a high-CO2 world (2011, background): “Shells/skeletons constructed from heterogeneous materials, such as interlaminated aragonite and calcite (Li et al., 2004; Tanur et al., 2010) and even highMg calcite (due to size differences between the Mg2+ and Ca2+ cations in the calcite crystal lattice; Magdans and Gies, 2004), have been shown…”
Hierarchical structure and mechanical properties of nacre: a review (2012, unknown): “54 High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (top view) of a tablet shows nanograins of about 3–10 nm in size, shown in Fig.”
On the mechanics of mother-of-pearl: a key feature in the material hierarchical structure (2007, methodology): “, 2000; Okumura and de Gennes, 2001; Ji and Gao, 2004) and nanostructured tablets (Li et al., 2004).”
Mineralized structures in nature: Examples and inspirations for the design of new composite materials and biomaterials (2010, background): “[33] suggested that mineral bridges could exist between the successive aragonite tablets, which were confirmed by Song et al.”
Mechanical properties of nacre constituents and their impact on mechanical performance (2006, background): “On the other hand, from atomic force microscopy observations, Li et al.(5) recently suggested that the tablets are actually composed of nanograins.”
Nanostructure, composition and mechanisms of bivalve shell growth (2008, background): “, 2006) and in red abalone (Li et al., 2004), as well as in echinoids (Decker et al.”