Parrotfish Teeth: Stiff Biominerals Whose Microstructure Makes Them Tough and Abrasion-Resistant to Bite Stony Corals

Autor: Matthew A. Marcus, Xiyue X. X. Zhang, Nobumichi Tamura, Shahrouz Amini, J. Q. Isaiah Chua, Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Cayla A. Stifler, Hans A. Bechtel, Harold Barnard, Chang-Yu Sun, Ali Miserez

Publikováno v: Marcus, MA; Amini, S; Stifler, CA; Sun, CY; Tamura, N; Bechtel, HA; et al.(2017). Parrotfish Teeth: Stiff Biominerals Whose Microstructure Makes Them Tough and Abrasion-Resistant to Bite Stony Corals. ACS Nano, 11(12), 11856-11865. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05044. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0bv00488
ACS nano, vol 11, iss 12

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Parrotfish (Scaridae) feed by biting stony corals. To investigate how their teeth endure the associated contact stresses, we examine the chemical composition, nano- and microscale structure, and the mechanical prope

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