{"id":135319,"date":"2022-02-07T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/at-last-new-synthetic-tooth-enamel-is-harder-and-stronger-than-the-real-thing"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:22:29","slug":"at-last-new-synthetic-tooth-enamel-is-harder-and-stronger-than-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/at-last-new-synthetic-tooth-enamel-is-harder-and-stronger-than-the-real-thing","title":{"rendered":"At Last: New Synthetic Tooth Enamel Is Harder and Stronger Than the Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-last-new-synthetic-tooth-enamel-is-harder-and-stronger-than-the-real-thing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delivering what has been so challenging to produce, researchers present an engineered analog of tooth enamel \u2013 an ideal model for designing biomimetic materials \u2013 designed to closely mimic the composition and structure of biological teeth\u2019s hard mineralized outer layer. It demonstrates exceptional mechanical properties, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Natural tooth enamel \u2013 the thin outer layer of our teeth \u2013 is the hardest biological material in the human body. It is renowned for its high stiffness, hardness, viscoelasticity, strength, and toughness and exhibits exceptional damage resistance, despite being only several millimeters thick.<\/p>\n<p>Tooth enamel\u2019s unusual combination of properties is a product of its hierarchical architecture \u2013 a complex structure made up of mostly hydroxyapatite nanowires interconnected by an amorphous intergranular phase (AIP) consisting of magnesium-substituted amorphous calcium phosphate. However, accurately replicating this type of hierarchical organization in a scalable abiotic composite has remained a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivering what has been so challenging to produce, researchers present an engineered analog of tooth enamel \u2013 an ideal model for designing biomimetic materials \u2013 designed to closely mimic the composition and structure of biological teeth\u2019s hard mineralized outer layer. It demonstrates exceptional mechanical properties, they say. Natural tooth enamel \u2013 the thin outer layer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}