Biological Composites

Boßelmann, F.; Romano, P.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: The composition of the exoskeleton of two crustacea: The American lobster Homarus americanus and the edible crab Cancer pagurus. Thermochimica Acta 463 (1-2), pp. 65 - 68 (2007)

Romano, P.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: The exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus as an example of a smart anisotropic biological material. Acta Biomaterialia 3 (3), pp. 301 - 309 (2007)

Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Yi, S. B.; Fabritius, H.: Preferred crystallographic texture of α-chitin as a microscopic and macroscopic design principle of the exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus. Acta Biomaterialia 3, pp. 882 - 895 (2007)

Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Pitsch, F.; Raabe, D.: Nanoindentation as tool to investigate micro-mechanical properties in the hierarchical structure of biological materials. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (2007)

Pinto, H.; Petrov, M.; Friak, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Fabritius, H.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.; Pyzalla, A. R.: Eigenspannungen am Hummerexoskelett. Sitzung des FA 13 Eigenspannungen am AWT, IFW Dresden, Germany (2007)

Pinto, H.; Petrov, M.; Friak, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Fabritius, H.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.; Pyzalla, A. R.: Residual Stresses in the Exoskeleton of a Homarus americanus Lobster. MECASENS IV, Wien (2007)

Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Counts, W. A.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Bone at Submicron Scale through Mean-Field Homogenization. European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2007), Nürnberg, Germany (2007)

Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles on the mechanics and efficiency of different biological materials using lobster cuticle as a model material. DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany (2007)

Raabe, D.; Fabritius, H.; Raue, L.; Klein, H.; Sachs, C.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Yi, S. B.: Textures of biological matter. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V., Fachausschuss Texturen, RWTH Aachen, Germany (2007)

Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Microstructure and micromechanics of hard biological tissues: From lobster cuticle to human bone. Seminar talk at Université Catholique de Louvain, Dept. of Applied Sciences, Louvain, Belgium (2007)

Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles on the mechanics and efficiency of different biological materials using lobster cuticle as a model material. Second International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues (ICMBT 2007), Lihue, HI, USA (2007)