The most important demand of today's high-performance materials is to unite high strength
with extreme fracture toughness. The combination of withstanding large forces (strength) …

Tissue mechanobiology is an emerging field with the overarching goal of understanding the
interplay between biophysical and biochemical responses affecting development …

Teeth are composed of many tissues, covered by an inflexible and obdurate enamel. Unlike
most other tissues, teeth become extremely cold sensitive when inflamed. The mechanisms …

Background The radula, a chitinous membrane with embedded teeth, is one important
molluscan autapomorphy. In some taxa (Polyplacophora and Patellogastropoda) one tooth …

Reconstructing diet is critical to understanding hominin adaptations. Isotopic and functional
morphological analyses of early hominins are compatible with consumption of hard foods …

We propose a novel fluorescent adhesive-assisted biomimetic mineralization strategy,
based on which 1 wt% of sodium fluorescein and 25 wt% of polyacrylic acid stabilized …

The molluscan radula, a thin membrane with embedded rows of teeth, is the structure for
food processing and gathering. For proper functioning, radular failures must be either …

Objectives The aim of this in vitro investigation was to assess and compare surface
characteristics and nanomechanics of model polymer infiltrated ceramic network (PICN) …

Objective Multiple dental researches show that bovine teeth are potential alternatives to
human teeth. However, whereas cattle are herbivore, humans are omnivorous …

In this study a high resolution structural analysis revealed that enamel prisms are
surrounded by an interface that is discontinuous with frequent mineral to mineral contact …