Fabrication of bionanocomposites comprising flat nanocrystals of calcium in collagen fibers exhibiting hardness comparable to metal
Abstract
In nature's biomineralization process, living organisms naturally incorporate insoluble
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* Corresponding authors
a
Nanophysics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
E-mail:
ilker.bayer@iit.it
b Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA
c
Center for Nano Science and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
E-mail:
abbtf@gmail.com
d Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA
e Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Application Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
f Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
In nature's biomineralization process, living organisms naturally incorporate insoluble
I. S. Bayer, A. Ghosh, M. Labriola, A. S. Biris, E. Dervishi, F. Watanabe, T. Wang, C. Slaboch, T. C. Ovaert and A. Biswas, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 20315 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA43121E
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