Publications of A. Al-Sawalmih

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)

Krywka, C.; Sternemann, C.; Paulus, M.; Javid, N.; Winter, R.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Yi, S. B.; Raabe, D.; Tolan, M.: The small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering set-up at beamline BL9 of DELTA. Journal of Syncroton Radiation 14, pp. 244 - 251 (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)

Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Microstructure and crystallographic texture of the chitin-protein network in the biological composite material of the exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus. Materials Science and Engineering A 421, pp. 143 - 153 (2006)

Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Mesostructure of the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus. Mater. Res. Soc. Sympos. Proc. 874, pp. 155 - 160 (2005)

Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Discovery of a honeycomb structure in the twisted plywood patterns of fibrous biological nano-composite tissue. Journal of Crystal Growth 283, 1-2, pp. 1 - 7 (2005)

Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Structure and crystallographic texture of arthropod bio-composites. In: Materials Science Forum, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials ICOTOM 14, pp. 1665 - 1674. 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials ICOTOM 14, Leuven, Belgium, July 11, 2005 - July 15, 2005. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland (2005)

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)

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)

Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Raue, L.; Klein, H.; Fabritius, H.: Texture of Alpha-chitin and Calcite as a Microscopic Composite Design and Macroscopic Biological Construction Principle of the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus americanus. MRS Fall Conference, Boston, MA, USA (2006)

Fabritius, H.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Raabe, D.: Arthropod cuticle as an example for bio-composite materials with a strong hierarchical order from the nano- to the macro-level of organization. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (2005)

Al-Sawalmih, A.; Fabritius, H.; Raue, L.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Yi, S. B.; Raabe, D.: Orientation and Crystallographic Texture of Calcite and Chitin in Lobster Shell. Euromat 2005, Prague, Czech Republic (2005)

Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.: Texture and Smart Anisotropy of the Exoskeleton Tissue of Lobster. MRS Spring Meeting 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA (2005)

Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Microstructure and Mesostructure of the exoskeleton of the lobster homarus americanus. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (2005)

Al-Sawalmih, A.: Orientation Relation between Calcite and Chitin in Crustacean Arthropods.

Al-Sawalmih, A.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Raabe, D.: Structure and texture analysis of chitin-bio-nanocomposites using synchrotron radiation. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (2005)

Romano, P.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Raabe, D.; Brokmeier, H. G.: Mesostructure, microstructure and anisotropy of the lobster cuticle. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (2005)

Romano, P.; Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Influence of sample preparation and anisotropy on lobster claw studied by LOM, SEM and TEM. Focus on Microscopy, Jena, Germany (2005)