Selected Publications

Ping, H.; Wagermaier, W.; Horbelt, N.; Scoppola, E.; Li, C.; Werner, P. E.; Fu, Z.; Fratzl, P.: Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils. Science 376 (6589), pp. 188 - 192 (2022)

Fratzl, P.; Friedman, M.; Krauthausen, K.; Schäffner, W. (Eds.): Active Materials. De Gruyter, Berlin (2022), VI, 372 pp.

Amini, S.; Razi, H.; Seidel, R.; Werner, D.; White, W. T.; Weaver, J. C.; Dean, M. N.; Fratzl, P.: Shape-preserving erosion controlled by the graded microarchitecture of shark tooth enameloid. Nature Communications 11, 5971 (2020)

Eder, M.; Schäffner, W.; Burgert, I.; Fratzl, P.: Wood and the activity of dead tissue. Advanced Materials 33 (28), 2001412 (2021)

Harrington, M. J.; Fratzl, P.: Natural load-bearing protein materials. Progress in Materials Science 120, 100767 (2021)

Moreno-Jiménez, I.; Cipitria, A.; Sánchez-Herrero, A.; Van Tol, A.; Roschger, A.; Lahr, C. A.; McGovern, J. A.; Hutmacher, D. W.; Fratzl, P.: Human and mouse bones physiologically integrate in a humanized mouse model while maintaining species-specific ultrastructure. Science Advances 6 (44), abb9265 (2020)

Van Tol, A.; Schemenz, V.; Wagermaier, W.; Roschger, A.; Razi, H.; Vitienes, I.; Fratzl, P.; Willie, B. M.; Weinkamer, R.: The mechanoresponse of bone is closely related to the osteocyte lacunocanalicular network architecture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (51), pp. 32251 - 32259 (2020)

Zou, Z.; Habraken, W.; Matveeva, G.; Jensen, A. C. S.; Bertinetti, L.; Hood, M. A.; Sun, C.-y.; Gilbert, P. U. P. A.; Polishchuk, I.; Pokroy, B. et al.; Mahamid, J.; Politi, Y.; Weiner, S.; Werner, P.; Bette, S.; Dinnebier, R.; Kolb, U.; Zolotoyabko, E.; Fratzl, P.: A hydrated crystalline calcium carbonate phase: Calcium carbonate hemihydrate. Science 363 (6425), pp. 396 - 400 (2019)

Ehrig, S.; Schamberger, B.; Bidan, C. M.; West, A.; Jacobi, C.; Lam, K.; Kollmannsberger, P.; Petersen, A.; Tomancak, P.; Kommareddy, K. et al.; Fischer, F. D.; Fratzl, P.; Dunlop, J. W. C.: Surface tension determines tissue shape and growth kinetics. Science Advances 5 (9), eaav9394 (2019)

Eder, M.; Shahrouz, A.; Fratzl, P.: Biological composites—complex structures for functional diversity. Science 362 (6414), pp. 543 - 547 (2018)

Kollmannsberger, P.; Bidan, C. M.; Dunlop, J. W. C.; Fratzl, P.; Vogel, V.: Tensile forces drive a reversible fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition during tissue growth in engineered clefts. Science Advances 4 (1), eaao4881 (2018)

He, F.; Chiou, A. E.; Loh, H. C.; Lynch, M.; Seo, B. R.; Song, Y. H.; Lee, M. J.; Hörth, R. M.; Bortel, E.; Willie, B. M. et al.; Duda, G. N.; Estroff, L. A.; Masic, A.; Wagermaier, W.; Fratzl, P.; Fischbach, C.: Multiscale characterization of the mineral phase at skeletal sites of breast cancer metastasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (40), pp. 10542 - 10547 (2017)

Zlotnikov, I.; Zolotoyabko, E.; Fratzl, P.: Nano-scale modulus mapping of biological composite materials: theory and practice. Progress in Materials Science 87, pp. 292 - 320 (2017)

Fratzl, P.: The bioinspired design of materials. In: +ultra knowledge & gestaltung, pp. 173 - 178 (Eds. Doll, N.; Bredekamp, H.; Schäffner, W.). E. A. Seemann, Leipzig (2017)

Reznikov, N.; Steele, J. A. M.; Fratzl, P.; Stevens, M. M.: A materials science vision of extracellular matrix mineralization. Nature Reviews Materials 1 (8), 16041 (2016)

Gal, A.; Wirth, R.; Kopka, J.; Fratzl, P.; Faivre, D.; Scheffel, A.: Macromolecular recognition directs calcium ions to coccolith mineralization sites. Science 353 (6299), pp. 590 - 593 (2016)

Fratzl, P.; Kolednik, O.; Fischer, F. D.; Dean, M. N.: The mechanics of tessellations – bioinspired strategies for fracture resistance. Chemical Society Reviews 45 (2), pp. 252 - 267 (2016)

Masic, A.; Bertinetti, L.; Schütz, R.; Chang, S.-W.; Metzger, T. H.; Buehler, M. J.; Fratzl, P.: Osmotic pressure induced tensile forces in tendon collagen. Nature Communications 6, 5942 (2015)

Degtyar, E.; Harrington, M. J.; Politi, Y.; Fratzl, P.: The mechanical role of metal ions in biogenic protein-based materials. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53 (45), pp. 12026 - 12044 (2014)

Bayerlein, B.; Zaslansky, P.; Dauphin, Y.; Rack, A.; Fratzl, P.; Zlotnikov, I.: Self-similar mesostructure evolution of the growing mollusc shell reminiscent of thermodynamically driven grain growth. Nature Materials 13 (12), pp. 1102 - 1107 (2014)

Kerschnitzki, M.; Kollmannsberger, P.; Burghammer, M.; Duda, G. N.; Weinkamer, R.; Wagermaier, W.; Fratzl, P.: Architecture of the osteocyte network correlates with bone material quality. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 28 (8), pp. 1837 - 1845 (2013)

Baumgartner, J.; Dey, A.; Bomans, P. H. H.; Le Coadou, C.; Fratzl, P.; Sommerdijk, N. A. J. M.; Faivre, D.: Nucleation and growth of magnetite from solution. Nature Materials 12 (4), pp. 310 - 314 (2013)

Harrington, M. J.; Masic, A.; Holten-Andersen, N.; Waite, J. H.; Fratzl, P.: Iron-clad fibers: a metal-based biological strategy for hard flexible coatings. Science 328 (5975), pp. 216 - 220 (2010)

Fratzl, P.; Barth, F. G.: Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation. Nature 462 (7272), pp. 442 - 448 (2009)

Roschger, P.; Paschalis, E. P.; Fratzl, P.; Klaushofer, K.: Bone mineralization density distribution in health and disease. Bone 42 (3), pp. 456 - 466 (2008)

Rumpler, M.; Woesz, A.; Dunlop, J. W. C.; van Dongen, J. T.; Fratzl, P.: The effect of geometry on three-dimensional tissue growth. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5 (27), pp. 1173 - 1180 (2008)

Fratzl, P.: Biomimetic materials research: what can we really learn from nature's structural materials? Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4 (15), pp. 637 - 642 (2007)

Elbaum, R.; Zaltzman, L.; Burgert, I.; Fratzl, P.: The role of wheat awns in the seed dispersal unit. Science 316 (5826), pp. 884 - 886 (2007)

Fratzl, P.; Weinkamer, R.: Nature's hierarchical materials. Progress in Materials Science 52 (8), pp. 1263 - 1334 (2007)