Structural motifs and elastic properties of hierarchical biological tissues - A review

Benny Bar-On; H. Daniel Wagner

doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2013.05.012

Structural motifs and elastic properties of hierarchical biological tissues - A review

Benny Bar-On, H. Daniel Wagner

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Abstract

Recent progress made in the field of hierarchical biological materials is reviewed with an emphasis on the staggering characteristics at the smaller structural scale of a number of tissues. We show by means of selected examples that the small-scale architecture, and particularly the degree of staggering and overlap, plays a critical role in the macroscopic elastic behavior of those tissues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	149-164
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Structural Biology
Volume	183
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2013.05.012
State	Published - 1 Aug 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Biological composites
Hierarchical tissues
Staggered architecture

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Structural Biology

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