Biological Composites

Al-Sawalmih, A.; Li, C.; Siegel, S.; Fabritius, H.; Yi, S. B.; Raabe, D.; Fratzl, P.; Paris, O.: Microtexture and Chitin/Calcite Orientation Relationship in the Mineralized Exoskeleton of the American Lobster. Advanced Functional Materials 18 (20), pp. 3307 - 3314 (2008)

Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Influence of the microstructure on deformation anisotropy of mineralized cuticle from the lobster Homarus americanus. Journal of Structural Biology 161, pp. 120 - 132 (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Petrov, M.; Friak, M.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.; Ma, D.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of lobster cuticle from nano‐ up to macroscale: The influence of the mineral content and the microstructure. In: Proceedings of MMM 2008 "Computational Modeling of biological and soft condensed matter systems", pp. 667 - 670. 4th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Tallahassee, FL, USA, October 27, 2008 - October 31, 2008. Dep. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, USA (2008)

Hild, S.; Ziegler, A.; Neues, F.; Epple, M.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: The Crustacean Cuticle: A Model to Study the Influence of Chemical Composition and Microstructure on the Mechanical Properties of a Biological Composite Material. MRS Fall Conference 2008, Boston, MA, USA (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Petrov, M.; Friák, M.; Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.: Hierarchical Modeling of the Elastic Properties of Lobster Cuticle via Ab Initio Calculations and Mean-field Homogenization. MRS Fall Conference 2008, Boston, MA, USA (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Petrov, M.; Friák, M.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.: Multiscale Modelling of the Elastic Properties of Biological Polymer-Based Nanocomposites with Hierarchical Microstructure: The Lobster Cuticle. 3rd International Conference on Polymer Behaviour, Marrakech, Morocco (2008)

Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Nikolov, S.; Romano, P.; Hild, S.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles at different length scales on the mechanics and functional efficiency of biological materials. Ringberg Symposium 2008: Biological Approaches in Materials Sciences, Ringberg Castle, Rottach-Egern, Germany (2008)

Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Friak, M.; Petrov, M.; Nikolov, S.: Principles to design and simulate hierarchical materials with property-relevant structural features. MPI for Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Potsdam, Germany (2008)

Al-Sawalmih, A.; Fabritius, H.; Yi, S. B.; Li, C.; Siegel, S.; Raabe, D.; Paris, O.: Investigation of the Orientation Relationship Between α-Chitin and Calcite in Crustacean Cuticle Using Microbeam Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction. 15th International Conference on the Texture of Materials (ICOTOM 15), Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2008)

Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Romano, P.; Raue, L.; Klein, H.; Al-Sawalmih, A.: Crystallographic Textures from the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus and Calculation of the Mechanical Properties of the Calcite Phase. 15th International Conference on the Textures of Materials (ICOTOM 15), Carnegie Mellon University Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2008)

Sachs, C.; Romano, P.; Raue, L.; Fabritius, H.; Klein, H.; Paris, O.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Fratzl, P.; Wu, X.; Raabe, D.: Crystallographic and topological textures of biological materials and the resulting anisotropy of the mechanical properties. 15th International Conference on the Texture of Materials (ICOTOM 15), Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of hard biological tissues: Bone and lobster cuticle. MSU conference, MPIE Düsseldorf, Germany (2008)

Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Nikolov, S.; Romano, P.; Hild, S.; Raabe, D.: Wie beeinflussen Struktur und chemische Zusammensetzung auf unterschiedlichen Längenskalen die mechanischen Eigenschaften von biologischen Materialien ? Institute Colloquium, Department of Polymer Science, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Linz, Austria (2008)

Fabritius, H.; Hild, S.; Raabe, D.: Leg joints of the lobster Homarus americanus as an example of cuticle modification for specific functions: Variations in structure, composition and properties. MRS Fall Meeting 2008, Boston, MA, USA (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Petrov, M.; Friák, M.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.; Ma, D.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of lobster cuticle from nano‐ up to macroscale: The influence of the mineral content and the microstructure. 4th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Tallahassee, FL, USA (2008)

Sachs, C.; Nikolov, S.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Investigation and Modeling of the Elastic Properties of Lobster Cuticle Depending on its Grade of Mineralization. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (2008)