Molecular mechanics of mineralized collagen fibrils in bone

Fracture mechanics of hydroxyapatite single crystals under geometric confinement

(2013) Flavia Libonati et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Structural and Mechanical Differences between Collagen Homo- and Heterotrimers: Relevance for the Molecular Origin of Brittle Bone Disease

(2012) Shu-Wei Chang et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The nanometre-scale physiology of bone: steric modelling and scanning transmission electron microscopy of collagen-mineral structure

(2012) B. Alexander et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Thickness of Hydroxyapatite Nanocrystal Controls Mechanical Properties of the Collagen–Hydroxyapatite Interface

(2012) Zhao Qin et al.   LANGMUIR

Analytical solutions of the displacement and stress fields of the nanocomposite structure of biological materials

(2011) Gang Liu et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Early Stages of Nucleation of Hydroxyapatite at a Collagen Template

(2011) Neyvis Almora-Barrios et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Computer simulation of elastic constants of hydroxyapatite and fluorapatite

(2011) E. Menéndez-Proupin et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Mechanical model for staggered bio-structure

(2011) Benny Bar-On et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Evolutionary Screening of Collagen-like Peptides That Nucleate Hydroxyapatite Crystals

(2011) Woo-Jae Chung et al.   LANGMUIR

Hierarchical Structure and Nanomechanics of Collagen Microfibrils from the Atomistic Scale Up

(2011) Alfonso Gautieri et al.   NANO LETTERS

On the Mechanistic Origins of Toughness in Bone

(2010) Maximilien E. Launey et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Atomistic modeling of apatite-collagen composites from molecular dynamics simulations extended to hyperspace

(2010) Patrick Duchstein et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING

Mechanical properties of unidirectional nanocomposites with non-uniformly or randomly staggered platelet distribution

(2010) Z.Q. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Nano-mechanical properties of individual mineralized collagen fibrils from bone tissue

(2010) F. Hang et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A Density Functional Theory Study of the Interaction of Collagen Peptides with Hydroxyapatite Surfaces

(2010) Neyvis Almora-Barrios et al.   LANGMUIR

The role of collagen in bone apatite formation in the presence of hydroxyapatite nucleation inhibitors

(2010) Fabio Nudelman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

How to control the size and morphology of apatite nanocrystals in bone

(2010) B. Xie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biominerals-hierarchical nanocomposites: the example of bone

(2010) Elia Beniash   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Molecular and Mesoscale Mechanisms of Osteogenesis Imperfecta Disease in Collagen Fibrils

(2009) Alfonso Gautieri et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mechanisms of Load-Deformation Behavior of Molecular Collagen in Hydroxyapatite-Tropocollagen Molecular System: Steered Molecular Dynamics Study

(2009) Rahul Bhowmik et al.   JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Inspiration and application in the evolution of biomaterials

(2009) Nathaniel Huebsch et al.   NATURE

Deformation rate controls elasticity and unfolding pathway of single tropocollagen molecules

(2008) Alfonso Gautieri et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

When the cracks begin to show

(2008) Peter Fratzl   NATURE MATERIALS

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

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