Tear resistance of soft collagenous tissues

Defect tolerance is important in order to ensure the mechanical integrity of synthetic materials and biological tissues. Here the authors demonstrate that toughening mechanisms provide soft collagenous tissues with high defect tolerance, with important implications for biomedical applications.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kevin Bircher, Manuel Zündel, Marco Pensalfini, Alexander E. Ehret, Edoardo Mazza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08723-y