Colloquium: Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself

Mind the helical crack

(2010) Markus J. Buehler et al.   NATURE

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Strength in numbers

(2010) Markus J. Buehler   Nature Nanotechnology

Molecular and Mesoscale Mechanisms of Osteogenesis Imperfecta Disease in Collagen Fibrils

(2009) Alfonso Gautieri et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Computing the viscosity of supercooled liquids

(2009) Akihiro Kushima et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Nanomechanical properties of vimentin intermediate filament dimers

(2009) Zhao Qin et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Deformation and failure of protein materials in physiologically extreme conditions and disease

(2009) Markus J. Buehler et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Plasticity and toughness in bone

(2009) Robert O. Ritchie et al.   PHYSICS TODAY

Alpha-Helical Protein Networks Are Self-Protective and Flaw-Tolerant

(2009) Theodor Ackbarow et al.   PLoS One

Hierarchical Structure Controls Nanomechanical Properties of Vimentin Intermediate Filaments

(2009) Zhao Qin et al.   PLoS One

Cyclic tensile strain triggers a sequence of autocrine and paracrine signaling to regulate angiogenic sprouting in human vascular cells

(2009) Y. C. Yung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A realistic molecular model of cement hydrates

(2009) R. J.-M. Pellenq et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2009) Horacio D. Espinosa et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Natural Protective Amyloids

(2008) Vassiliki Iconomidou et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

The MARTINI Coarse-Grained Force Field: Extension to Proteins

(2008) Luca Monticelli et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

A multi-timescale strength model of alpha-helical protein domains

(2008) Theodor Ackbarow et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Measurements of Bond Elongation during a Bimolecular Reaction

(2008) Sri Rama Koti Ainavarapu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Geometric Confinement Governs the Rupture Strength of H-bond Assemblies at a Critical Length Scale

(2008) Sinan Keten et al.   NANO LETTERS

The true toughness of human cortical bone measured with realistically short cracks

(2008) K. J. Koester et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Strength limit of entropic elasticity in beta-sheet protein domains

(2008) Sinan Keten et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Asymptotic Strength Limit of Hydrogen-Bond Assemblies in Proteins at Vanishing Pulling Rates

(2008) Sinan Keten et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Elastic Bond Network Model for Protein Unfolding Mechanics

(2008) Hendrik Dietz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Theoretical and computational hierarchical nanomechanics of protein materials: Deformation and fracture

(2008) M BUEHLER et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Single-molecule biophysics: at the interface of biology, physics and chemistry

(2007) A. A Deniz et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface