The DOI matches its Crossref record; 20 of the 20 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Deformation mechanisms in nacre
Abstract
Nacre (mother-of-pearl) from mollusc shells is a biologically formed lamellar ceramic. The inelastic deformation of this material has been experimentally examined, with a focus on understanding the underlying mechanisms. Slip along the lamellae tablet interface has been ascertained by testing in compression with the boundaries oriented at 45° to the loading axis. The steady-state shear resistance τ ss has been determined and inelastic strain shown to be as high as 8%. The inelastic deformation was realized by massive interlamellae shearing. Testing in tension parallel to the tablets indicates inelastic strain of about 1%, occurring at a steady-state stress, σ sss ≈ 110 MPa. The strain was associated with the formation of multiple dilatation bands at the intertablet boundaries accompanied by interlamellae sliding. Nano-asperities on the aragonite tablets and their interposing topology provide the resistance to interfacial sliding and establish the level of the stress needed to attain the inelastic strain. Detailed mechanisms and their significance for the design of robust ceramics are discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
THE MATERIAL BONE: Structure-Mechanical Function Relations
Weiner, S., & Wagner, H. D. (1998) · Annual Review of Materials Science · doi:10.1146/annurev.matsci.28.1.271 · Cited by 2,724
Better Ceramics Through Chemistry
Ulrich, D. R. (1988) · Transformation of Organometallics into Common and Exotic Materials: Design and Activation · doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1393-6_19 · Cited by 1,713
The mechanical design of nacre
Jackson, A. P., Vincent, J. F. V., & Turner, R. M. (1988) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.1988.0056 · Cited by 1,269
Molecular mechanistic origin of the toughness of natural adhesives, fibres and composites
Smith, B. L., Schäffer, T. E., Viani, M., Thompson, J. B., Frederick, N. A., Kindt, J., Belcher, A., Stucky, G. D., Morse, D. E., & Hansma, P. K. (1999) · Nature · doi:10.1038/21607 · Cited by 1,218
Design strategies in mineralized biological materials
Weiner, S., & Addadi, L. (1997) · Journal of Materials Chemistry · doi:10.1039/a604512j · Cited by 1,034
A simple way to make tough ceramics
Clegg, W. J., Kendall, K., Alford, N. M., Button, T. W., & Birchall, J. D. (1990) · Nature · doi:10.1038/347455a0 · Cited by 840
Biomimetic Pathways for Assembling Inorganic Thin Films
Aksay, I. A., Trau, M., Manne, S., Honma, I., Yao, N., Zhou, L., Fenter, P., Eisenberger, P. M., & Gruner, S. M. (1996) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.273.5277.892 · Cited by 743
Self-citationMechanical properties of mother of pearl in tension
Currey, J. D. (1977) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.1977.0050 · Cited by 722
Continuous self-assembly of organic–inorganic nanocomposite coatings that mimic nacre
Sellinger, A., Weiss, P. M., Nguyen, A., Lu, Y., Assink, R. A., Gong, W., & Brinker, C. J. (1998) · Nature · doi:10.1038/28354 · Cited by 579
Innovative Materials Processing Strategies: a Biomimetic Approach
Heuer, A. H., Fink, D. J., Laraia, V. J., Arias, J. L., Calvert, P. D., Kendall, K., Messing, G. L., Blackwell, J., Rieke, P. C., Thompson, D. H., et al. (1992) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1546311 · Cited by 543
Cited by
The conflicts between strength and toughness
Ritchie, R. O. (2011) · Nature Materials · doi:10.1038/nmat3115 · Cited by 3,989
Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties
Meyers, M. A., Chen, P.-Y., Lin, A. Y.-M., & Seki, Y. (2008) · Progress in Materials Science · doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2007.05.002 · Cited by 2,573
Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature
Gao, H., Ji, B., Jäger, I. L., Arzt, E., & Fratzl, P. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0631609100 · Cited by 1,922
Tough, Bio-Inspired Hybrid Materials
Munch, E., Launey, M. E., Alsem, D. H., Saiz, E., Tomsia, A. P., & Ritchie, R. O. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1164865 · Cited by 1,822
Nanostructured artificial nacre
Tang, Z., Kotov, N. A., Magonov, S., & Ozturk, B. (2003) · Nature Materials · doi:10.1038/nmat906 · Cited by 1,454
Metadata
- Authors
- Wang, R. Z., Suo, Z., Evans, A. G., Yao, N., & Aksay, I. A.
- Venue
- Journal of Materials Research
- Published
- 2001-09
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2485-2493
- ISSN
- 0884-1616 (ISSN-L)
- 0884-2914
- 2044-5326
- OpenAlex
- W2081588461
- Cited by
- 835
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 5.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Deformation mechanisms in nacre. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1557/jmr.2001.0340
- The paper
- Wang, R. Z., Suo, Z., Evans, A. G., Yao, N., & Aksay, I. A. (2001). Deformation mechanisms in nacre. Journal of Materials Research. https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2001.0340
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
