Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Fratzl, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

Date: 2009-03-06

Time: 11:00

Place: Lecture Hall B, Chemistry Department, Lund University, Lund.

Abstract: Biological materials, such as bone, wood, tooth, arthropod cuticle or mollusc shells, are hierarchically structured and, thus, inhomogeneous at many length scales. Scanning and tomographic imaging using micro-focus synchrotron radiation or neutrons are ideal tools for obtaining structural information from the molecular to macroscopic length scales. Recent studies on nano-scale deformation mechanisms in tendon, bone and antler will be reviewed. Moreover, scanning x-ray imaging of bone or tooth may also reveal structural details relevant for medical applications.

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