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ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 519-+Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200902019
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Research Foundation)
- Max Planck Society
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Natural materials are hierarchically structured nanocomposites. A bottom-up multiscale approach to model the mechanical response of the chitin-based mineralized cuticle material of Homarus americanus is presented, by combining quantum-mechanical ab initio calculations with hierarchical homogenization. The simulations show how the mechanical properties are transferred from the atomic scale through a sequence of specifically designed microstructures to realize optimal stiffness.
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