The three-dimensional arrangement of the mineralized collagen fibers in elephant ivory and its relation to mechanical and optical properties by M. Albéric and others

Acta Biomaterialia72,342–351(2018); DOI10.1016/j.actbio.2018.02.016. Primary abstract and publisher www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742706118300862 . Complementary X-ray scattering, cross-polarized light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy; graded mineralized-collagen orientations and proposed connection with optical pattern. Initial-only first-author byline M.Albéric retained.