@article {Rousseau2005,
	title = {{Multiscale structure of sheet nacre}},
	journal = {Biomaterials},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {6254{\textendash}6262},
	abstract = {This work was conducted on Pinctada maxima nacre (mother of pearl) in order to understand its multiscale ordering and the role of the organic matrix in its structure. Intermittent-contact atomic force microscopy with phase detection imaging reveals a nanostructure within the tablet. A continuous organic framework divides each tablet into nanograins. T heir shape is supposed to be flat with a mean extension of 45 nm. TEM performed in the darkfield mode evidences that at least part of the intracrystalline matrix is crystallized and responds like a {\textquoteright}single crystal{\textquoteright}. The tablet is a {\textquoteright}hybrid composite{\textquoteright}. The organic. matrix is continuous. The mineral phase is thus finely divided still behaving as a single crystal. It is proposed that each tablet results from the coherent aggregation of nanograins keeping strictly the same crystallographic orientation thanks to a hetero-epitaxy mechanism. Finally, high-resolution TEM performed on bridges from one tablet to the next, in the overlying row, did not permit to evidence a mineral lattice but crystallized organic bridges. The same organic bridges were evidenced by SEM in the interlaminar sequence. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0142-9612},
	doi = {10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.03.028},
	author = {Rousseau, M and Lopez, E and Stempfle, P and Brendl{\'e}, M and Franke, L and Guette, A and Naslain, R and Bourrat, X}
}
