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A new technique for imaging mineralized fibrils on bovine trabecular bone fracture surfaces by atomic force microscopy

Kindt, J. H.
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Fantner, G. E.  
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Thurner, P. J.
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Fratzl, P.
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Landis, W. .J
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2005
Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials
Symposium on Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials held at the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting

High resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of bovine trabecular bone fracture surfaces reveal individual fibrils coated with extrafibrillar mineral particles. The mineral particles are distinctly different in different regions. In some regions the particles have average dimensions of (70 +/- 35) nm along the fibrils and about half that across the fibrils. In other regions they are smaller and rounder, of order (53 +/- 14) nm both along and across the fibrils. In other regions they are smaller and rounder, of order (25 +/- 15) nm both along and across the fibrils, with more rounded top surfaces. Significantly, we rarely observed bare collagen fibrils. If the observed particles can be verified to be native extrafibrillar mineral, this could imply that the fractures which created the observed areas propagated within the mineralized extrafibrillar matrix.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1557/PROC-874-L5.12
Web of Science ID

WOS:000232487800009

Author(s)
Kindt, J. H.
Fantner, G. E.  
Thurner, P. J.
Schitter, G.
Hansma, P. K.
Editors
Fratzl, P.
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Landis, W. .J
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Wang, R.
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Silver, F. H.
Date Issued

2005

Published in
Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials
Series title/Series vol.

MRS Proceedings; 874

Start page

59

End page

65

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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Symposium on Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials held at the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting

San Francisco, CA

MAR 29-31, 2005

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November 5, 2010
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