Mechanical properties of nanostructure of biological materials

被引:796
作者
Ji, BH [1 ]
Gao, HJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Met Res, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
fracture mechanisms; strengthening and mechanisms; biological material; inhomogeneous material; viscoelastic material;
D O I
10.1016/j.jmps.2004.03.006
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Natural biological materials such as bone, teeth and nacre are nanocomposites of protein and mineral with superior strength. It is quite a marvel that nature produces hard and tough materials out of protein as soft as human skin and mineral as brittle as classroom chalk. What are the secrets of nature? Can we learn from this to produce bio-inspired materials in the laboratory? These questions have motivated us to investigate the mechanics of protein-mineral nanocomposite structure. Large aspect ratios and a staggered alignment of mineral platelets are found to be the key factors contributing to the large stiffness of biomaterials. A tension-shear chain (TSC) model of biological nanostructure reveals that the strength of biomaterials hinges upon optimizing the tensile strength of the mineral crystals. As the size of the mineral crystals is reduced to nanoscale, they become insensitive to flaws with strength approaching the theoretical strength of atomic bonds. The optimized tensile strength of mineral crystals thus allows a large amount of fracture energy to be dissipated in protein via shear deformation and consequently enhances the fracture toughness of biocomposites. We derive viscoelastic proper-ties of the protein-mineral nanostructure and show that the toughness of biocomposite can be further enhanced by the viscoelastic properties of protein. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1963 / 1990
页数:28
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