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The hidden structure of human enamel

Enamel is the hardest and most resilient tissue in the human body. Enamel includes morphologically aligned, parallel, ∼50 nm wide, microns-long nanocrystals, bundled either into 5-μm-wide rods or their space-filling interrod. The orientation of enamel crystals, however, is poorly understood. Here we...

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Autores principales: Beniash, Elia, Stifler, Cayla A., Sun, Chang-Yu, Jung, Gang Seob, Qin, Zhao, Buehler, Markus J., Gilbert, Pupa U. P. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6763454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12185-7