Highlights

Articles

• A Tough Pearl to Crack: Artificial Ceramic Mimics Mechanical Properties of Mother of Pearl
• Bone is Tough Where it Matters
• Understanding the Mechanisms of Human Bone (Text or Audio)
• Bone Quality May Have More to Do with Fracture Risk than Bone Quantity (Text or Audio)
• New Insight into Why the Elderly Suffer More Fractures (Text or Audio)
• Why Older People Suffer More Bone Fractures
• Atomic-Scale Studies of Ceramic Grain Boundaries
• A Conveyor Belt for the Nano-Age
• Atomic Clues for Tougher Ceramics
• Synchrotron Mesodiffraction: A Tool for Understanding Turbine Engine Foreign Object Damage
• Reshaping Flight for Fuel Efficiency - National Geographic News

Opinion

• Whither 'nano' or 'bio'? Materials Today, Dec. 2005
 

Journal Covers

	Bone Vol. 35 (6), Dec 2004 Nalla, et al. Aging of Bone		Physics Today Vol. 62 (6), June 2009 Ritchie, et al. Plasticity and Toughness in Bone
	Bone  Vol. 46 (6), June 2010 Barth, et al. Effect of X-Rays on Human Bone		Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Vol. 25 (8), Aug 2010  Diez-Perez, et al.  Microindentation for In Vivo Measurement of Bone
	Nature Materials Vol. 10 (2), Feb 2011  Demetriou, et. al. Damage Tolerant Glass		Nature Materials Vol. 12 (1), Jan 2013 Bale, et al. Real-Time Quantitative Imaging of Failure Events in Ultrahigh-Temperature Materials under Load at Temperatures above 1600C

 

Videos

 Article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20127968-76/why-bones-break-more-easily-after-50-video/

 

Article: http://www.smartplanet.com/video/metallic-glass-the-strongest-toughest-material-yet/6196423

 

Article: http://www-als.lbl.gov/index.php/holding/796/