Architecture of crossed-lamellar bivalve shells: the southern giant clam (Tridacna derasa, Röding, 1798)

O. B. A. Agbaje; R. Wirth; L. F. G. Morales; K. Shirai; M. Kosnik; T. Watanabe; D. E. Jacob

doi:10.1098/rsos.170622

Architecture of crossed-lamellar bivalve shells: the southern giant clam (Tridacna derasa, Röding, 1798)

O. B. A. Agbaje, R. Wirth, L. F. G. Morales, K. Shirai, M. Kosnik, T. Watanabe, D. E. Jacob^*

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Abstract

Tridacna derasa shells show a crossed lamellar microstructure consisting of three hierarchical lamellar structural orders. The mineral part is intimately intergrown with 0.9 wt% organics, namely polysaccharides, glycosylated and unglycosylated proteins and lipids, identified by Fourier transform infrared spectrometry. Transmission electron microscopy shows nanometre-sized grains with irregular grain boundaries and abundant voids. Twinning is observed across all spatial scales and results in a spread of the crystal orientation angles. Electron backscatter diffraction analysis shows a strong fibre texture with the [001] axes of aragonite aligned radially to the shell surface. The aragonitic [100] and [010] axes are oriented randomly around [001]. The random orientation of anisotropic crystallographic directions in this plane reduces anisotropy of the Young’s modulus and adds to the optimization of mechanical properties of bivalve shells.

Original language	English
Article number	170622
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Royal Society Open Science
Volume	4
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170622
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2017

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aragonite
bivalvia
electron backscatter diffraction
transmission electron microscopy
tridacnidae
Young’s modulus

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