Micro-CT of sea urchin ossicles supplemented with microbeam diffraction

Stuart R. Stock; Konstantin I. Ignatiev; Arthur Veis; Francesco De Carlo; J. D. Almer

doi:10.1117/12.558070

26 October 2004 Micro-CT of sea urchin ossicles supplemented with microbeam diffraction

Stuart R. Stock, Konstantin I. Ignatiev, Arthur Veis, Francesco De Carlo, J. D. Almer

Proceedings Volume 5535, Developments in X-Ray Tomography IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558070
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Sea urchins employ as wide a range of composite reinforcement strategies as are seen in engineering composites. Besides tailoring reinforcement morphology and alignment to the functional demands of position, solid solution strengthening (high Mg calcite), inclusion toughening (macromolecules), functional gradients in mineral reinforcement morphology, composition and dimensions and mineral interface tailoring are other tactics important to achieving high toughness and high strength in sea urchin teeth. Teeth from different echinoid families illustrate combinations of reinforcement parameters and toughening mechanisms providing good functionality, a virtual probe of the available design space. This paper focuses on a multi-mode x-ray investigation of sea urchin teeth studied on scales approaching 1 µm in millimeter-sized samples, in particular mapping 3-D microarchitecture with synchrotron and laboratory microCT and mapping Ca_1-xMg_xCO₃ crystal composition x and microstrain and crystallite size via microbeam diffraction.

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Stuart R. Stock, Konstantin I. Ignatiev, Arthur Veis, Francesco De Carlo, and J. D. Almer "Micro-CT of sea urchin ossicles supplemented with microbeam diffraction", Proc. SPIE 5535, Developments in X-Ray Tomography IV, (26 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558070

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