video: Cracking eggshell nanostructure: Three-dimensional "Google Earth Eggshell" zoom-in from the macroscale to the interior nanoscale in a chicken eggshell fragment from a table egg. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 March 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Athanasiadou at McGill University in Montreal, QB, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Nanostructure, osteopontin, and mechanical properties of calcitic avian eggshell." view more
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