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- Title
Jaws of Platynereis dumerilii: Miniature Biogenic Structures with Hardness Properties Similar to Those of Crystalline Metals.
- Authors
Zelaya-Lainez, Luis; Balduzzi, Giuseppe; Lahayne, Olaf; Ikeda, Kyojiro N.; Raible, Florian; Herzig, Christopher; Nischkauer, Winfried; Limbeck, Andreas; Hellmich, Christian
- Abstract
Nanoindentation, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy and weighing ion-spiked organic matrix standards revealed structure-property relations in the microscopic jaw structures of a cosmopolitan bristle worm, Platynereis dumerilii. Hardness and elasticity values in the jaws' tip region, exceeding those in the center region, can be traced back to more metal and halogen ions built into the structural protein matrix. Still, structure size appears as an even more relevant factor governing the hardness values measured on bristle worm jaws across the genera Platynereis, Glycera and Nereis. The square of the hardness scales with the inverse of the indentation depth, indicating a Nix-Gao size effect as known for crystalline metals. The limit hardness for the indentation depth going to infinity, amounting to 0.53 GPa, appears to be an invariant material property of the ion-spiked structural proteins likely used by all types of bristle worms. Such a metal-like biogenic material is a major source of bio-inspiration.
- Subjects
HARDNESS; PLASMA spectroscopy; CYTOSKELETAL proteins; JAWS; MASS spectrometry; FUSION reactors; PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems
- Publication
JOM: The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 2021, Vol 73, Issue 8, p2390
- ISSN
1047-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11837-021-04702-1