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1 IOP PUBLISHING BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS Bioinsp. Biomim. 5 (2010) 035001 (8pp) doi:10.1088/1748-3182/5/3/035001
 

Summary:  % of the composite of nacre consists of proteins and polysaccharides mostly located at the interface between tablets... therefore focuses on tension along the tablets. The stress­strain curves of nacre from red abalone... shells with columnar nacres (top shell and red ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
2 By Jennifer Welsh Seashells are pretty tough cookies, and now
 

Summary:  of 30 proteins, and we don't know the structure of even one," she said. "The mechanics of nacre is very... the shell both tough and strong. Abalone seashells are made of two layers, an outer brittle layer... and a tough inner layer that is made of mother of pearl, or nacre. If something pierces through the ...

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
3 Polarization-dependent imaging contrast in abalone shells Rebecca A. Metzler,1 Dong Zhou,1 Mike Abrecht,2 Jau-Wern Chiou,3 Jinghua Guo,4 Daniel Ariosa,5 Susan N. Coppersmith,1
 

Summary:  PIC in X-PEEM images of red abalone Haliotis rufe- scens nacre.14 Using X-PEEM, we observe... on the orientation of the polar angle. Because the prismatic and nacre layers of red abalone shells consist... . 3. Color online a Carbon */ * map of the polished surface of red abalone ...

  

Source: Coppersmith, Susan N. - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Gilbert, Pupa Gelsomina De Stasio - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Materials Science ; Physics

 
4 An Experimental Investigation of Deformation and Fracture of NacreMother of Pearl
 

Summary:  is slightly higher than the one previously measured on nacre from red abalone using three and four point... red abalone. Strikingly, waviness and similar dovetail geometries can also be observed in nacre from... performance, tensile and fracture tests were performed on nacre from the ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University; Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
5 Structural parameters The analytical model proposed here can explain high fracture
 

Summary:  NanoScience 1 (12), 2011. p. 5361. Bone NacreCollagen fibrilmineral platelets 10-1 10-2 10-3 10-4 10-6 10... and nacre. · The staggered structure consists of stiff mineral inclusions aligned along one direction... with some overlap, and bonded by softer proteins. · This unique structure leads to interesting combinations

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
6 The growth of nacre in the abalone shell Albert Yu-Min Lin *, Po-Yu Chen, Marc Andre Meyers
 

Summary:  The growth of nacre in the abalone shell Albert Yu-Min Lin *, Po-Yu Chen, Marc Andre´ Meyers... , DA, Almqvist N, et al. Does abalone nacre form by heteroepitaxial nucleation or by growth through... . Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Abalone; ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
7 Dynamics of sheet nacre formation in bivalves Marthe Rousseau a,
 

Summary:  the growing nacre as the `membrane'. This highly cross-linked protein-rich membrane (Nudelman et al., 2008... dynamics of nacre tablets is controlled by spatially distinct components of acidic proteins in the growth... Dynamics of sheet nacre formation in bivalves Marthe Rousseau a, ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
8 Mechanical properties of nacre constituents and their impact on mechanical performance
 

Summary:  ) The mechanical properties of nacre constituents from red abalone were investigated. Electron microscopy studies... and hard- ness of the tablets. The present work on nacre from Haliotis Rufescens (red abalone) actually... from the nacreous layer of a red abalone specimen (Haliotis ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University; Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
9 Toughness amplification in natural composites Francois Barthelat n
 

Summary:  for modulus and strength with experimental data from red abalone nacre (Wegst and Ashby 2004; Barthelat et al... in nacre are complex systems consisting of soft layers of proteins and polysaccharides (Sarikaya and Aksay... concentration. The experimental data shown in Fig. 3 for nacre is ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
10 ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF NACRE ARAGONITE TABLETS F. Barthelat and H.D. Espinosa
 

Summary:  68, Paper 187, 2003. #12;Figure 1: Schematic of the microstructure of nacre from Red Abalone... ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF NACRE ARAGONITE TABLETS F. Barthelat and H.D. Espinosa Department... of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208-3111 ABSTRACT Nacre has

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
11 Received 18 Oct 2010 | Accepted 22 Dec 2010 | Published 1 Feb 2011 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1172 Nacre, the iridescent material in seashells, is one of many natural materials employing
 

Summary:  's toughening mechanisms. Pre- notched fracture samples of natural nacre cut from Red Abalone... | Hierarchical structure of natural nacre and bio-inspired composite. (a) Red abalone shell. Inset shows a cross... ., Lin, A., Chen, P. & Muyco, J. Mechanical strength of abalone ...

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
12 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55 (2007) 306337
 

Summary:  of nacre, starting at the macroscale down to the nanoscale, with a focus on columnar nacre from red abalone... are stacked in columns across the layers. This type of nacre can be found in Haliotis Rufescens (red abalone... arrangement of the tablets in columnar ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University; Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
13 Direct Observation of the Transition from Calcite to Aragonite Growth as Induced by Abalone Shell Proteins
 

Summary:  , Santa Barbara, California 93106 USA ABSTRACT The mixture of EDTA-soluble proteins found in abalone nacre... ., 1996). Previous studies have shown that the mixture of soluble proteins found in abalone nacre cause... ). In particular, proteins ...

  

Source: Hansma, Paul - Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
14 Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials
 

Summary:  and mechanics of nacre from Red Abalone, and include a discussion of other mineralized tissues and organisms (e... of the analysis of deformation of nacre, bone and protein-based hier- archical protein filaments, elucidating... ) 1059­1100 1065 #12;Fig. 5. The multiscale structure of ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University; Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
15 TENSILE TESTING OF ABALONE NACRE MINIATURE SPECIMENS USING MICROSCOPY AND SPECKLE CORRELATION
 

Summary:  TENSILE TESTING OF ABALONE NACRE MINIATURE SPECIMENS USING MICROSCOPY AND SPECKLE CORRELATION... is a brittle ceramic. Abalone nacre microstructure and its mechanics of deformation are examined, and an in... -3111 espinosa@nwu.edu http://clifton.mech.nwu.edu/~espinosa ABSTRACT Nacre from ...

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
16 Multiscale structure of sheet nacre Marthe Rousseaua
 

Summary:  to aragonite growth as induced by abalone shell proteins, Biophys J 79 (2000) (6), pp. 3307­3312. [21] T... , B.L. Smith, G.D. Stucky, D.E. Morse and P.K. Hansma, Does abalone nacre form by heteroepitaxial... Multiscale structure of sheet nacre Marthe Rousseaua , Evelyne Lopeza , Philippe ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
17 19 A Review on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Mollusk Shells Perspectives
 

Summary:  in shells: the calcitic Pink Conch shell and Nacre from Red Abalone. Finally, the intricate structures... of Mollusk Shells 25 Fig. 19.7. The multiscale structure of nacre (all images from red abalone except g. (a... showing tablet waviness (red abalone). (g) Optical micrograph of ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
18 A novel biomimetic material duplicating the structure and mechanics of natural nacre
 

Summary:  the axis of the aragonite plates. The model is based on observations for abalone nacre... : Does abalone nacre form by heteroepitaxial nucleation or by growth through mineral bridges? Chem. Mater... ARTICLES A novel biomimetic material duplicating the structure and mechanics of natural ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
19 J O U R N A L O F T H E M E C H A N I C A L B E H AV I O R O F B I O M E D I C A L M A T E R I A L S 1 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 7 6 8 5 available at www.sciencedirect.com
 

Summary:  .elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm Research paper Mechanical strength of abalone nacre: Role of the soft organic layer Marc André Meyers... ) shells. Mater. Sci. Eng. A 297, 203­211. Sarikaya, M., Aksay, J.A., 1992. Nacre of abalone shell... . Does abalone nacre form by ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
20 XANES in Nanobiology Rebecca A. Metzler1
 

Summary:  in particular. In this framework, we extensively analyzed various proteins, minerals and biominerals. Here we... -edge is sensitive to protein misfolding and aggregation into amyloid fibrils, and to the orientation of individual... aragonite crystals in mother-of-pearl. Keywords: XANES, X-PEEM, protein misfolding, aggregation, ...

  

Source: Gilbert, Pupa Gelsomina De Stasio - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Biology and Medicine


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21 Growth of nacre in abalone: Seasonal and feeding effects M.I. Lopez , P.Y. Chen, J. McKittrick, M.A. Meyers
 

Summary:  Growth of nacre in abalone: Seasonal and feeding effects M.I. Lopez , P.Y. Chen, J. McKittrick, M... 2010 Available online 9 September 2010 Keywords: Abalone Nacre Growth Haliotis Chitin Biomineralization... with outstanding tough- ness inspired by the structure of nacre in the ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
22 Biomimetics for next generation materials BY FRANCOIS BARTHELAT*
 

Summary:  of nacre The structure of a typical nacreous shell is shown in figure 2 for the shell of red abalone... of organic materials (proteins and polysaccharides; Sarikaya & Aksay 1995). Nacre has a finer structure than... in diameter. In nacre from red abalone, there ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
23 Nano-composite structure of nacre biocrystal Xavier Bourrat, Marthe Rousseau, Evelyne Lopez, Alain Cout, Grard Mascarel, David C. Smith, Philipe Stempfl
 

Summary:  BL, Stucky GD, Morse DE, Hansma PK. Does abalone nacre form by heteroepitaxial nucleation... observation of the transition from calcite to aragonite growth as induced by abalone shell proteins. Biophys... Nano-composite structure of nacre biocrystal Xavier Bourrat, Marthe Rousseau, ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
24 Biomimetic mineralization and biomineralization Paul Calvert,
 

Summary:  biomineralization: Acidic 8-kda proteins isolated from aragonitic abalone shell nacre can specifically modify... ., Morse, D. and De Yoreo, J. (2005). Acceleration of calcite kinetics by abalone nacre proteins, Advanced... between platelets. ...

  

Source: Calvert, Paul - Department of Textile Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

 

Collection: Engineering ; Materials Science

 
25 Jennifer Welsh Date: 01 February 2011 Time: 07:06 AM ET
 

Summary:  is a cocktail of 30 proteins, and we don't know the structure of even one," she said. "The mechanics of nacre... -strength-interlocking-bricks.html #12;Mother of pearl on the inside of a seashell. Pablo Zavattieri View full size image Abalone... of pearl, or nacre. If something pierces through the outer ...

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
26 In-situ AFM Experiments with Discontinuous DIC Applied to Damage Identification in Biomaterials
 

Summary:  structures (e.g., bone, nacre, wood, spider silk [1­5]). Nacre from Abalone shells, also known as Mother- of... as a last source of protection for the Abalone [10, 11]. However, nacre's micro- and nano-scale architecture... M, Lin A, Chen P, Muyco J (2008) Mechanical strength of ...

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
27 Materials Science and Engineering A 390 (2005) 2741 Growth and structure in abalone shell
 

Summary:  by the organic layer is not quantitatively understood. The structure of nacre within the shells of abalone... and Engineering A 390 (2005) 27­41 37 Fig. 13. (a) SEM of cross-section of abalone, showing protein layer (darker... Materials Science and Engineering A 390 (2005) 27­41 Growth and structure in ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
28 Architecture of Columnar Nacre, and Implications for Its Formation Mechanism Rebecca A. Metzler,1
 

Summary:  . The spectromicroscopy data for a cross section of red abalone nacre shown in Fig. 2(a) demonstrate that tablet... abalone. Figure 2(a) demonstrates that the growth direction of nacre cannot be identified with the c... of individual layers of nacre tablets in abalone ...

  

Source: Coppersmith, Susan N. - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Gilbert, Pupa Gelsomina De Stasio - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Materials Science ; Physics

 
29 Micromechanics and Macromechanics of the Tensile Deformation of Nacre
 

Summary:  rufescens (red abalone) nacre, has been shown to possess a modular structure consisting of ~10 domains... of nacre. Ji and Gao (2004b) used the virtual internal bond (VIB) model for the protein matrix and found... Micromechanics and Macromechanics of the Tensile Deformation of Nacre H.J. ...

  

Source: Ortiz, Christine - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
30 1999 Macmillan Magazines Ltd letters to nature
 

Summary:  , and, in particular, at the nacre in abalone shells. Analysis of the insoluble organic matrix from... the abalone shell revealed a ®brous core in the interlamellar sheets placed between successive nacre tablets5... nacre tablets. a, Scanning electron micrograph of a freshly cleaved ...

  

Source: Hansma, Paul - Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
31 Failure mode transition in nacre and bone-like materials Reza Rabiei, Sacheen Bekah, Francois Barthelat *
 

Summary:  are now well documented for the case of columnar nacre [10] (columnar nacre from red abalone is perhaps... abalone nacre [11]. While columnar nacre developed well-defined deformation bands following the columnar... strength in abalone ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
32 Structure, Scaling, and Performance of Natural Micro-and Nanocomposites
 

Summary:  natural materials such as nacre, bone, or teeth, stiffness and toughness are achieved with the staggered... and biomimetic composites. Keywords Nacre . Bone . Biological composites . Fracture toughness . Micromechanics... ­5]. Among hard biological materi- als, nacre boasts remarkable structural performances and has become

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
33 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55 (2007) 14101438
 

Summary:  to the persistence length, L ¼ Lc/p. Progressive unfolding of proteins in the organic material of nacre is expected... , the value of L ¼ Lc/p for the protein chain in the organic material of nacre is estimated to be at least 40... triaxiality and enhancing the toughness of nacre. The ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University; Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
34 Nacre properties in the elastic range.1 Influence of matrix incompressibility2
 

Summary:  of biological nanocomposite nacre: Multiscale modeling and experiments on21 nacre from red abalone, Mater. Res... Nacre properties in the elastic range.1 Influence of matrix incompressibility2 Sergey Dashkovskiy... of Bremen, E-mail:7 {tushtev,grath}@ceramics.uni-bremen.de8 Abstract9 The elastic behavior of ...

  

Source: Dashkovskiy, Sergey - Zentrum für Technomathematik, Universität Bremen

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Mathematics

 
35 Mechanical properties and structure of Strombus gigas, Tridacna gigas, and Haliotis rufescens sea shells: A comparative study
 

Summary:  shell The structure of nacre taken from the red abalone (H. rufescens) has been well studied as a model... In the nacre of the red abalone, both the macro- and microstructure of the shell resemble the structure... of calcium carbonate crystals interleaved with layers of viscoelastic ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
36 Web address: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/
 

Summary:  That Behave Like Mollusk Shells ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2011) -- Nacre, commonly known as mother... in a material that well outperforms its individual constituents. For example, the toughness of nacre is orders... of magnitude greater than that of the tablet material itself. In addition, nacre is at once strong and tough

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
37 Deformation mechanisms in nacre Department of Chemical Engineering and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University,
 

Summary:  , the lamellae boundaries FIG. 1. Schematic illustrations of (a) columnar nacre/abalone shell and (b) sheet nacre... . Note that the elastic modulus and flexural strength are larger for pearl oyster nacre than for abalone... , in abalone nacre, the edge-on orientation ...

  

Source: Aksay, Ilhan A. - Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University; Suo, Zhigang - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Physics

 
38 IOP PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A: MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 125101 (17pp) doi:10.1088/1751-8113/42/12/125101
 

Summary:  crystal orientation in red abalone nacre S N Coppersmith, P U P A Gilbert1 and R A Metzler Department... aspects of the pattern of tablet orientations in red abalone nacre measured using X-PEEM. This paper... in red abalone nacre, and demonstrates that numerical ...

  

Source: Coppersmith, Susan N. - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Gilbert, Pupa Gelsomina De Stasio - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Materials Science ; Physics

 
39 J O U R N A L O F T H E M E C H A N I C A L B E H AV I O R O F B I O M E D I C A L M A T E R I A L S 4 ( 2 0 1 1 ) 1 9 0 2 1 1 available at www.sciencedirect.com
 

Summary:  A C T Nacre, the iridescent material found in Abalone shells, exhibits remarkable strength... .elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm Research paper Dimensional analysis and parametric studies for designing artificial nacre Jee E. Rima... in revised form 10 November 2010 Accepted 11 November 2010 Published online 24 November 2010 Keywords: ...

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
40 The role of organic intertile layer in abalone nacre M.A. Meyers a,
 

Summary:  The role of organic intertile layer in abalone nacre M.A. Meyers a, , C.T. Lim b , A. Li b , B... online 13 July 2009 Keywords: Chitin Abalone Nacre Characterization of the growth surfaces removed from... from parameters characteristic of the abalone nacre. We assume: ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science


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41 Dr. Franois Barthelat, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering phone: (514) 398-6318
 

Summary:  : "Tensile Testing of Abalone Nacre Miniature Specimens Using Microscopy and Speckle Correlation", 2002 SEM... Title: The Mechanical Performance of Nacre from Seashells ­ Superior Toughness through Microstructural... of synthetic composites mimicking nacre Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering: ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
42 Dr. Franois Barthelat, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering phone: (514) 398-6318
 

Summary:  , WI. *F. Barthelat and H.D. Espinosa: "Tensile Testing of Abalone Nacre Miniature Specimens Using... Title: The Mechanical Performance of Nacre from Seashells ­ Superior Toughness through Microstructural... mimicking nacre Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering: Research Assistant (2000-2005) · ...

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
43 ICGA ABALONE TOURNAMENT Tino Werner1
 

Summary:  that the only two participants in the Abalone tournament were Peer Sommerlung with his program Nacre and Tino... THE 1st ICGA ABALONE TOURNAMENT Tino Werner1 and Peer Sommerlund2 Graz, Austria / Copenhagen... , Denmark 1 Introduction The game Abalone was invented in 1989, and ranked "Game of the Decade

  

Source: Technische Universität Graz, Institute for Software Technology

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
44 Forming nacreous layer of the shells of the bivalves Atrina rigida and Pinctada margaritifera: An environmental-and cryo-scanning
 

Summary:  -like proteins and the acidic proteins are considered the major components of the organic matrix of the nacre... that exudes from the nacre when it is exposed to water is composed of protein and behaves as a gel. Based... . Discussion We show that a hydrated protein ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
45 J O U R N A L O F T H E M E C H A N I C A L B E H AV I O R O F B I O M E D I C A L M A T E R I A L S 1 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 2 0 8 2 2 6 available at www.sciencedirect.com
 

Summary:  and unusual structures these materials pos- sess. For example, the nacre of the abalone shell has been re... abalone nacre, implying a higher inorganic to organic ratio. Furthermore the uniformity of the tiles... M E D I C A L M A T E R I A L S 1 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 2 0 8 ­ 2 2 6 Fig. 6 ­ Two samples of ...

  

Source: McKittrick, Joanna - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
46 ing a sequence of moves, each of which is random but with probabilities that should
 

Summary:  grains Calcite layer Cross-section of a red abalone shell A B D C Calcite-nacre junction Surface... microscopy image of surface nanograins on an individual nacre platelet from California red abalone and (right... . The alumina platelets possess higher ultimate tensile strength than the aragonite platelets ...

  

Source: Ortiz, Christine - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
47 J O U R N A L O F T H E M E C H A N I C A L B E H AV I O R O F B I O M E D I C A L M A T E R I A L S ( ) available at www.sciencedirect.com
 

Summary:  shows the five levels identified for abalone nacre: · Level I is the molecular structure of the chitin... (5 levels) of the abalone nacre from nano, micro, to meso to structural length scales. Table 2... growth of abalone nacre from flat pearl experiment; (b) Glass ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
48 J O U R N A L O F T H E M E C H A N I C A L B E H AV I O R O F B I O M E D I C A L M A T E R I A L S 2 ( 2 0 0 9 ) 6 0 7 6 1 2 available at www.sciencedirect.com
 

Summary:  .elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm Research paper Interfacial shear strength in abalone nacre Albert Yu-Min Lina,, Marc André Meyersa... of the interface between tiles of aragonite in the nacre of red abalone Haliotis rufescens was investigated through... mentioned in other reports dealing with the mechanical ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
49 Universit de Bourgogne Dijon UMR 5561/CNRS Biogosciences
 

Summary:  of matrix glycoproteins involves in mineralization of nacre. FEBS J. 274, 2933- 2945. Marin F., Luquet G... ., Marie B. & Medakovic D. (2008) Molluscan shell proteins: primary structure, origin and evolution. Cur... ., Milet C. & Luquet G. Evolution of nacre: biochemistry and `shellomics' of the shell organic matrix

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
50 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26 (2007) 474485 www.elsevier.com/locate/jaa
 

Summary:  subsistence specialization: Comparing historic and prehistoric abalone middens on San Miguel Island... January 2007 Abstract Red abalone middens, common on the Northern Channel Islands during the Middle... of subsistence specialization of one such site, we com- pared faunal data from a 6400-year-old red abalone midden

  

Source: Braje, Todd J. - Department of Anthropology, Humboldt State University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
51 Status Review Report for Black Abalone DRAFT 4 January 2008
 

Summary:  Status Review Report for Black Abalone DRAFT ­ 4 January 2008 NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS... -SWR-## Status Review Report for Black Abalone (Haliotis cracherodii Leach, 1814) [AUTHORS: Butler, De... History of Black Abalone..................................................................... 16 3

  

Source: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
52 Voronoi Growth model of sheet nacre. Marthe Rousseau, Evelyne Lopez, Alain Cout, Grard Mascarel, David C. Smith, Xavier Bourrat
 

Summary:  Voronoi Growth model of sheet nacre. Marthe Rousseau, Evelyne Lopez, Alain Couté, Gérard Mascarel... December 2005 Pucón,Chile Voronoi Growth Model of Sheet Nacre. Marthe Rousseau1* , Evelyne Lopez1 , Alain... .Bourrat@univ-orleans.fr) Abstract The aim of this work was to study the tiling mode of nacre tablets in the 'brick and ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
53 DOI: 10.1126/science.1164865 , 1516 (2008);322Science
 

Summary:  - pabilities (1­3); indeed, many natural materials like bone, wood, and nacre (abalone shell) have highly... failure. The curves correspond to nongrafted lamellar hybrid composite and hydrated nacre (abalone shell... .sciencemag.orgDownloadedfrom #12;the dynamics of specific proteins. ...

  

Source: Ritchie, Robert O. - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
54 Biomimetic Nanocomposites Nacre, the inner mother-of-pearl layer of many mollusc shells, is an
 

Summary:  engineering materials. The shell of the California Red Abalone, Haliotis rufescens Nacre for toughness We... Biomimetic Nanocomposites Nacre, the inner mother-of-pearl layer of many mollusc shells... biologically inspired nanomaterials for structural applications. Cross-section of fractured nacre Schematic

  

Source: Balandin, Alexander- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Riverside

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
55 A remarkable self-healing, toughening and strengthen-ing system, the sacrificial bonds and hidden length system,
 

Summary:  length system3 . It takes enormous energy to fracture an abalone shell because the protein-based "glue... biomaterials such as bone, abalone shell and diatoms. Abalone shell is 97% crystalline calcium carbonate plates... such as phosphorylated serine residues on the back- bones of noncollagenous ...

  

Source: Hansma, Paul - Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
56 7Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry Vol. 59, pp. 157-185, 2005
 

Summary:  researchers of abalone nacre (Lin and Meyers 2005), although the thickness and spacing are different... , and have done so inspired by shell nacre (Tang et al. 2003). The mechanisms of biomineral formation... or a complex arrangement of proteins and glycoproteins. In all cases the organic components have ...

  

Source: Gilbert, Pupa Gelsomina De Stasio - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Biology and Medicine

 
57 The High Resolution Crystal Structure of Green Abalone Sperm Lysin: Implications for Species-
 

Summary:  Diego, La Jolla CA, 92093-0202, USA Abalone sperm lysin is a 16 kDa acrosomal protein used by sperm... at two-minute intervals. For green abalone VE, 20 ml (17.5 mg protein) of either lysin was added every... ;Protein preparation and crystallization Lysin from green ...

  

Source: Stout, Charles D. - Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
58 QUASI-STATIC AND DYNAMIC MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF HALIOTIS RUFESCENS (ABALONE) SHELLS
 

Summary:  -section of abalone shell, showing mesolayers, (b) brick and mortar micro- structure of nacre (schematically) [1]; (c... QUASI-STATIC AND DYNAMIC MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF HALIOTIS RUFESCENS (ABALONE) SHELLS R. MENIG1 , M... and three-point bending tests have been carried out on Haliotis rufescens (abalone) ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
59 Aims and scope Editorial Advisory Panel
 

Summary:  and humans. The findings, published in Nature Communications this week, suggest a new a role for this protein... protective role of glia Signalling of a growth factor protein in Müller glial cells is required... and contain RNA and proteins. Johan Skog and colleagues now find microvesicles that contain DNA

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
60 envelope of abalone eggs Rapidly evolving zona pellucida domain proteins are a major component of the vitelline
 

Summary:  envelope of abalone eggs Rapidly evolving zona pellucida domain proteins are a major component... zona pellucida domain proteins are a major component of the vitelline envelope of abalone eggs Jan E... is to characterize the constituent proteins of the egg coat [vitelline envelope (VE)] ...

  

Source: Aagaard, Jan - Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington at Seattle

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine


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61 Abalone lysin: the dissolving and evolving sperm protein
 

Summary:  Abalone lysin: the dissolving and evolving sperm protein Nicole Kresge,1 * Victor D. Vacquier,2... and C. David Stout1 Summary Abalone sperm lysin is a non-enzymatic protein that creates a hole for sperm... to release their acrosomal proteins cannot fertilize eggs. In ...

  

Source: Stout, Charles D. - Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
62 Franois Barthelat, Ph.D, Ing. Department of Mechanical Engineering Phone: (514) 398-6318
 

Summary:  University, IL, USA. Thesis: The Mechanical Performance of Nacre from Seashells ­ Superior Toughness through... , USA. Designed synthetic composites mimicking nacre. Supervised the research of graduate students... , Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA. Characterized the structure and mechanics of nacre from seashells

  

Source: Barthelat, Francois - Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
63 Current Biology, Vol. 14, 881884, May 25, 2004, 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2004.04.042 Learned Social Preference in Zebrafish
 

Summary:  ). nacre encodes a zebrafish microphthalmia- related protein that regulates neural-crest-derived pigment... - ure 1). nacre mutants completely lack melanophoreaging and reproductive success [7­9]. Thus, shoaling... understanding of pigment phenotype by backcrossing nacre heterozygotes (main-pattern ...

  

Source: Ryan, Michael J. - Section for Integrative Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
64 SPECTROMICROSCOPY AT THE ORGANIC-INORGANIC INTERFACE IN BIOMINERALS
 

Summary:  ., 2000, The amino-acid sequence of the abalone (Haliotis laevigata) nacre protein perlucin, European... : they are hard and fracture resistant. Nacre, for instance, is 3000 times tougher than geological aragonite... separately, and have done so inspired by shell nacre (Tang and others, ...

  

Source: Gilbert, Pupa Gelsomina De Stasio - Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Biology and Medicine

 
65 Sheet nacre growth mechanism: a Voronoi model Marthe Rousseaua,
 

Summary:  Sheet nacre growth mechanism: a Voronoi model Marthe Rousseaua, , Evelyne Lopeza, , Alain Coutéb... Orléans Cedex 2 Abstract Shell nacre (mother of pearl) of Pinctada margaritifera was analyzed by scanning... nacre on the mantle side. The whole animal is embedded in methyl methacrylate followed by separation

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
66 Aquaculture 140 (1996) 153-158 Effect of recombinant vertebrate growth hormones
 

Summary:  abalone, Haliotis kamtschatkana Barbara E. Taylor a,*, Deborah A. Donovan a, Ewen McLean b9', Edward M... abalone, Huliotis kamtschatkana. Fifty individually caged abalone were held in a common aquarium tank... with a constant flow of fresh ambient seawater and fed ad libitum on kelp (Nereocystis leutkeuna). The ...

  

Source: Donovan, Deborah - Department of Biology, Western Washington University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
67 he shapes of crystals found in bio-mineral structures such as the
 

Summary:  -aspartic acid binding to a partiular step on calcite (11). (D) Calcite plus AP8 protein extracted from abalone... abalone nacre (14). Even for this complex modifier, the changes in atomic-scale morphology are step... holds that these shapes are stabilized through the binding of pep- tides and ...

  

Source: Dove, Patricia M. - Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
68 Nacre: An orthotropic and bimodular elastic material K. Bertoldi a
 

Summary:  R, Fritz M, Walters DA, Almqvist N, et al. Does Abalone nacre form by heteroepitaxial nucleation... Nacre: An orthotropic and bimodular elastic material K. Bertoldi a , D. Bigoni b,*, W.J. Drugan b... December 2007 Abstract A new micromechanical model for nacre (mother-of-pearl) is proposed, based

  

Source: Bigoni, Davide - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale, Università di Trento; NONE

 

Collection: Engineering ; Materials Science

 
69 2008 June JOM 23www.tms.org/jom.html Overviewbiological materials science
 

Summary:  fracturing. The mech- Figure 1. The hierarchical structure of abalone nacre. (a) An abalone shell, (b) its... found in abalone nacre. The angle was measured and found to be approximately 35°. The ideal angle... microbuckling region found in abalone ...

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
70 Journal of Crystal Growth 252 (2003) 367371 Morphology and crystalline characterization of abalone shell
 

Summary:  . The soluble proteins extracted from the abalone shell play an important role on controlling the morphology... Keywords: B1. Abalone shell; B1. Calcium carbonate; B1. Water soluble proteins 1. Introduction The abalone... composed of acidic proteins, glycoproteins, ...

  

Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Functional Interface Materials Group Key Laboratory of Organic Solids

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Chemistry

 
71 Current Biology, Vol. 14, 881884, May 25, 2004, 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2004.04.042 Learned Social Preference in Zebrafish
 

Summary:  ). nacre encodes a zebrafish microphthalmia- related protein that regulates neural-crest-derived pigment... - ure 1). nacre mutants completely lack melanophoreaging and reproductive success [7­9]. Thus, shoaling... understanding of pigment phenotype by backcrossing nacre heterozygotes (main-pattern ...

  

Source: Parichy, David M. - Department of Biology, University of Washington at Seattle

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
72 The ecological and evolutionary consequences of sperm chemoattraction
 

Summary:  . Species integrity among abalone may result from the rapid evolution of two sperm proteins, lysin and an 18... Isolation. Surface proteins involved in sperm­egg interactions are better characterized for abalone (genus... , generalizations are permissible to other abalone species. ...

  

Source: Krug, Patrick J. - Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
73 Effects of Additives and Templates on Calcium Carbonate Mineralization in vitro
 

Summary:  Pinctada maxima and of the abalone Haliotis tuberculata: extraction and partial analysis of nacre proteins... ., 2005. CaCO3 biomineralization: Acidic 8-kDa proteins isolated from aragonitic abalone shell nacre can... ., Marin, F., Milet, C., Lopez, E., Giraud, M., ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
74 On the Fracture Toughness of Advanced Materials By Maximilien E. Launey, and Robert O. Ritchie*
 

Summary:  nacre, bone and wood. 2.3.1. Nacre Nacre (abalone shell) consists of a fine-scale layered brick... and hydrated nacre from abalone shell. B) These biomimetic materials show exceptional crack growth toughness... , nacre, wood) materials. We further ...

  

Source: Ritchie, Robert O. - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
75 DOI: 10.1126/science.1160165 , 1511 (2008);322Science
 

Summary:  - pabilities (1­3); indeed, many natural materials like bone, wood, and nacre (abalone shell) have highly... and variability of the protein response of human cancer cells to a chemotherapy drug, camptothecin. We present... tagged proteins in individual living cells at high temporal resolution. All cells show ...

  

Source: Alon, Uri - Departments of Molecular Cell Biology & Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
76 Social Behavior: How Do Fish Find Their Shoal Mate?
 

Summary:  advantage of the zebrafish pigmentation mutant nacre, in which a point mutation in the mitfa gene leads... the shoaling preferences of homo- zygous nacre mutants with heterozygous siblings that have the wild... -type fish, and nacre fish prefer to shoal with nacre fish (Figure 1). Shoaling by color has ...

  

Source: Peichel, Catherine "Katie" - Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
77 2008 June JOM 23www.tms.org/jom.html OverviewBiological Materials Science
 

Summary:  of abalone nacre. (a) An abalone shell, (b) its mesostructure, and (c) the aragonite tiles of its... ; (b) a characteristic microbuckling region found in abalone nacre. Figure 5.Failure mecha- nisms... microstructure. a b c Figure 3. A TEM of aba- lone nacre tiles ...

  

Source: McKittrick, Joanna - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
78 Madhav Ranganathan John D Weeks
 

Summary:  as nucleation sites Acceleration of Calcite Kinetics by Abalone Nacre Proteins - Change bulk properties

  

Source: Maryland at College Park, University of - Institute for Phyical Science and Technology, Weather and Chaos Project

 

Collection: Physics ; Geosciences

 
79 letters to nature NATURE |VOL 414 |13 DECEMBER 2001 |www.nature.com 773
 

Summary:  , in abalone nacre, are analogous to those in the muscle protein titin13±16 . The energy needed to break... origin for the remarkable toughness of another biocomposite material, abalone nacre, has been found12... . Here we report that bone, like abalone ...

  

Source: Hansma, Paul - Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
80 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2000), 50, 847855 Printed in Great Britain `Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis`, a
 

Summary:  in Great Britain `Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis`, a newly described pathogen of abalone, Haliotis... and cultured abalone, Haliotis spp., that inhabit the west coast of North America. The aetiological agent... is found within membrane-bound vacuoles in the cytoplasm of abalone gastrointestinal epithelial cells

  

Source: Shields, Jeffrey D. -Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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81 INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING NANOTECHNOLOGY Nanotechnology 18 (2007) 044026 (3pp) doi:10.1088/0957-4484/18/4/044026
 

Summary:  materials such as abalone shell and bone we have learned the following. (1) Nature is frugal with resources... The abalone shell, a composite of calcium carbonate plates sandwiched between organic material, is 3000 times... , 3], is thought to hold the key to nacre's fracture toughness [4]. In addition to the details

  

Source: Ruoff, Rodney S.- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Engineering ; Materials Science

 
82 Berkeley Lab Research Highlight Materials Sciences Division 09-2
 

Summary:  , or nacre, the inner lining of the shells of abalone and certain other mollusks, is renowned not only... constituent materials by such a wide margin. It is, however, not easy to replicate nacre's remarkable... strength, a nacre-like "brick-and-mortar" structure with very high alumina content was developed

  

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, High Redshift Supernova Search

 

Collection: Physics

 
83 round the turn of the 20th century,
 

Summary:  . Currently, they're focusing their study on bone and the nacre of abalone shells, since each exhibits... the capabilities of the natural materials. Bone and abalone nacre are good ones to begin with because they... than that of steel." Bone and abalone nacre both ...

  

Source: Aksay, Ilhan A. - Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
84 Tribol Lett Thermal -Induced Wear Mechanisms of Sheet Nacre in Dry Friction
 

Summary:  Tribol Lett 1 Thermal - Induced Wear Mechanisms of Sheet Nacre in Dry Friction Philippe Stempfléa... , France Abstract Sheet nacre is a natural biocomposite with a multiscale structure including a mineral... materials. This micro-architecture referred to as "bricks and mortar" nacre structure, is mainly studied

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
85 SUSAN N. COPPERSMITH PUBLICATIONS
 

Summary:  abalone nacre," preprint arXiv:0710.4573, Journal of the American Chemical Society 130, 17519-17527 (2008... , "Theoretical characterization of a model of aragonite crystal orientation in red abalone nacre," preprint ar... , Bradley H. Frazer, Susan N. Coppersmith, and P.U.P.A. Gilbert, "Architecture of ...

  

Source: Sheridan, Jennifer - Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources

 
86 Model for the robust mechanical behavior of nacre A.G. Evans and Z. Suo
 

Summary:  the axis of the aragonite plates. The model is based on observations for abalone nacre... ARTICLES Model for the robust mechanical behavior of nacre A.G. Evans and Z. Suo Department... ) The inelastic deformation of nacre that leads to its structural robustness has been characterized in a recent

  

Source: Aksay, Ilhan A. - Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University; Hutchinson, John W. - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University; Suo, Zhigang - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Materials Science ; Physics

 
87 Contact: Jim Milbury FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 562-980-4006 Oct. 20, 2008
 

Summary:  -980-4115 NOAA Completes White Abalone Recovery Plan NOAA's Fisheries Service has made available the final... recovery plan for white abalone, a marine mollusk listed in 2001 as endangered under the Endangered Species... and/or protect white abalone, and is required by the ESA as a guideline for the conservation

  

Source: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
88 LJournal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 235 (1999) 273284
 

Summary:  , the respiratory protein found in abalone blood, indicate that the abalone circulatory system is adjusted towards... of anaerobic energy to gastropod crawling and a re-estimation of minimum cost of transport in the abalone... distance, excluding maintenance and postural costs) was determined for the ...

  

Source: Donovan, Deborah - Department of Biology, Western Washington University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
89 Underwater adhesion of abalone: The role of van der Waals and capillary forces
 

Summary:  Underwater adhesion of abalone: The role of van der Waals and capillary forces A.Y.M. Lin d,*, R... of the pedal foot of the red abalone Haliotis rufescens reveals the presence of micrometer-scaled setae... reserved. Keywords: Abalone foot; Underwater adhesion; Van der Waals forces 1. Introduction Numerous

  

Source: Meyers, Marc A. - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
90 AN EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPLANT OF NORTHERN ABALONE, HALIOTIS KAMTSCHATKANA, IN BARKLEY SOUND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
 

Summary:  AN EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPLANT OF NORTHERN ABALONE, HALIOTIS KAMTSCHATKANA, IN BARKLEY SOUND, BRITISH... northern abalone. HaliotiB kamtschalka714 Jonas 1845, from exposed beds to two sites in sheltered... , productive abalone habitat were investigated. Mter nine months, 39% and 72% of transplanted abalone were

  

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Fishery Bulletin

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
91 Role of molecular charge and hydrophilicity in regulating the kinetics of crystal growth S. Elhadj, J. J. De Yoreo, J. R. Hoyer, and P. M. Dove
 

Summary:  rates over rates measured in the pure system by nanomolar levels of abalone nacre proteins... that low nanomolar levels of proteins isolated from abalone nacre actually increased rates of calcite... protein extracted from the mineralized tissue ...

  

Source: Dove, Patricia M. - Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
92 First characterisation of the populations and immune-related activities of hemocytes from two edible gastropod species, the disk abalone, Haliotis
 

Summary:  edible gastropod species, the disk abalone, Haliotis discus discus and the spiny top shell, Turbo... Institute, Geoje, Republic of Korea Abstract : The disk abalone Haliotis discus discus and the spiny top... using light microscopy and flow cytometry. Two types of hemocytes were identified in the disk abalone

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
93 UNIVERSIT de CAEN/BASSE-NORMANDIE U.F.R.: Sciences
 

Summary:  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.2.2 Le maclage de l'aragonite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.3 La nacre dans... .3 Influence des phases organiques extraites de la nacre naturelle . . . . . . 128 5.3.1 Phase polaire... la nacre naturelle, afin de proposer une application en tant ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
94 Sacrificial Bonds and Hidden Length: Unraveling Molecular Mesostructures in Tough Materials
 

Summary:  such as abalone nacre (7) and bone (21). To study these molecules in their natural state, molecular pulling... .01). Gluten Crude wheat gluten (G-5004, SIGMA) was used as a source of the total gluten protein. To produce... properties of the gluten protein network at the mesostructural level. All pulls were ...

  

Source: Hansma, Paul - Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
95 Energy metabolism in the tropical abalone, Haliotis asinina Linn: Comparisons with temperate abalone species
 

Summary:  the biuret protein measured in cell free hemolymph, thereby confirming the results for other abalone species... Energy metabolism in the tropical abalone, Haliotis asinina Linné: Comparisons with temperate... abalone species J. Baldwin a,, J.P. Elias a , R.M.G. Wells b , D.A. Donovan c a School of Biological

  

Source: Donovan, Deborah - Department of Biology, Western Washington University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
96 NATURE MATERIALS | VOL 10 | NOVEMBER 2011 | www.nature.com/naturematerials 817 requirement for almost all engineering structural materials
 

Summary:  , these materials, such as nacre (red abalone shell), have a `brick-and-mortar' structure; the `bricks' are ~0.5 m... . A. et al. Mechanical strength of abalone nacre: Role of the soft organic layer. J. Mech. Behav... materials have been made in the image of the nacre structure25 . Using ...

  

Source: Ritchie, Robert O. - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
97 Causes and consequences of the evolution of reproductive proteins
 

Summary:  are particularly well understood. Gamete interaction in abalones The interaction of the gamete proteins lysin... of these chimeric proteins to dissolve VEs from the two abalone species showed that the N- and C-termini and one... proteins have the potential to play a prominent role in ...

  

Source: Hoekstra, Hopi E. - Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
98 Mol. Biol. Evol. 16(6):839848. 1999 1999 by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. ISSN: 0737-4038
 

Summary:  within lysin, but, rather, occurs throughout its length. Another abalone acrosomal protein, formed... Da acrosomal proteins. Discussion Species Selectivity of VE Dissolution As in abalone (Vacquier and Lee 1993... abalone, lysin and a related 18-kDa acrosomal protein ...

  

Source: Hellberg, Michael E. - Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
99 http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-synthetic-materials-that-behave-like-mollusk-shell-020211.aspx Synthetic materials that behave like mollusk shells
 

Summary:  .aspx Synthetic materials that behave like mollusk shells Nacre, commonly known as mother... that well outperforms its individual constituents. For example, the toughness of nacre is orders... of magnitude greater than that of the tablet material itself. In addition, nacre is at once strong and tough

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
100 By EurekAlert Sign up now! View the newsletter sample.
 

Summary:  materials that behave like mollusk shells Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Nacre, commonly known as mother... that well outperforms its individual constituents. For example, the toughness of nacre is orders... of magnitude greater than that of the tablet material itself. In addition, nacre is at once strong and tough

  

Source: Espinosa, Horacio D. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Collection: Engineering


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