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Nacre has emerged as a beneficial natural product for bone cells and tissues, but its effect was only studied by gavage in the ovariectomized mouse model. We sought to assess the antiosteoporotic effect of nacre through a nutritional supplementation in the ovariectomized rat model. Sixteen‐week‐old female Wistar rats were either Sham‐operated or bi...
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In this work, we investigate the toughness of an inter-layer Self-Reinforced Polypropylene/Carbon Fibre Polypropylene (SRPP/CFPP) cross-ply hybrid composite and devise strategies to improve two aspects of its damage tolerance: (i) increasing the energy dissipation capability and (ii) enhancing the impact damage tolerance. To thi...
Natural nacre exhibits extraordinary functional and structural diversity, combining high strength and toughness. The mechanical properties of nacre are attributed to (i) a highly arranged hierarchical layered structure of inorganic minerals (95 vol %) containing a small amount only of organic materials (5 vol %), (ii) abundant synergistic interfaci...
The biological structure of shells consists of highly organized calcium carbonate (CaCO3) crystals, which have remarkable mechanical and biological properties compared to the pure mineral form of CaCO3. It has been known that the organization of these biominerals is controlled by a relatively tiny amount of organic components such as shell matrix p...
Graphene-wrapped metal oxide hybrid materials are synthesized through inspiration from natural CO2 mineralization. We created hierarchical, nanostructured graphene/metal oxide by converting a CO2-mineralized graphene oxide/CaCO3 precursor to metal-based minerals such as graphene- wrapped CuO hybrid materials, which highly enhanced the stability and...
The turtle's shell acts as a protective armor for the animal. By analyzing a turtle shell via finite element analysis, one can obtain the strength and stiffness attributes to help design man-made armor. As such, finite element analysis was performed on a Terrapene carolina box turtle shell. Experimental data from compression tests were generated to...
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
