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Title: | The stomatopod dactyl club : a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer | Authors: | Weaver, James C. Milliron, Garrett W. Mershon, William J. DiMasi, Elaine Kisailus, David Miserez, Ali Evans-Lutterodt, Kenneth Herrera, Steven Gallana, Isaias Swanson, Brook Zavattieri, Pablo |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | Weaver, J. C., Milliron, G. W., Miserez, A., Evans-Lutterodt, K., Herrera, S., Gallana, I., et al. (2012). The Stomatopod Dactyl Club: A Formidable Damage-Tolerant Biological Hammer. Science, 336(6086), 1275-1280. | Series/Report no.: | Science | Abstract: | Nature has evolved efficient strategies to synthesize complex mineralized structures that exhibit exceptional damage tolerance. One such example is found in the hypermineralized hammer-like dactyl clubs of the stomatopods, a group of highly aggressive marine crustaceans. The dactyl clubs from one species, Odontodactylus scyllarus, exhibit an impressive set of characteristics adapted for surviving high-velocity impacts on the heavily mineralized prey on which they feed. Consisting of a multiphase composite of oriented crystalline hydroxyapatite and amorphous calcium phosphate and carbonate, in conjunction with a highly expanded helicoidal organization of the fibrillar chitinous organic matrix, these structures display several effective lines of defense against catastrophic failure during repetitive high-energy loading events. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97274 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10404 |
ISSN: | 0036-8075 | DOI: | 10.1126/science.1218764 | Schools: | School of Materials Science & Engineering School of Biological Sciences |
Rights: | © 2012 The American Association for the Advancement of Science. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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