Selected Publications for Robert O. Ritchie (2013-14)

• H. A. Bale, A. Haboub, A. A. MacDowell, J. R. Nasiatka, D. L. Parkinson, B. N. Cox, D. B. Marshall  and R. O. Ritchie, “Real-Time Quantitative Imaging of Failure Events in Materials under Load at Temperatures above 1600°C”, Nature Materials, vol. 12 (1), Jan. 2013, pp. 40-46.
•  W. Yang, I. H. Chen, B. Gludovatz, E. A. Zimmermann, R. O. Ritchie and M. A. Meyers, “Natural Flexible Dermal Armor”, Advanced Materials, vol. 25 (1), Jan. 2013, pp. 31-48.
• J. Jia, Wei Yao, S. Amugongo, M. Shahnazari, W. Dai, Y. E. Lay, D. Olvera, E. A. Zimmermann, R. O. Ritchie, C. S. Li, T. Alliston and N. E. Lane, “Prolonged Alendronate Treatment Prevents the Decline in Serum TGF-b1 Levels and Reduces Cortical Bone Strength in Long-Term Estrogen Deficiency Rat Model”, Bone, vol. 52 (1), Jan. 2013, pp. 424-432.
• W. Yang, B. Gludovatz, E. A. Zimmermann, H. A. Bale, R. O. Ritchie and M. A. Meyers, “Structure and Fracture Resistance of Alligator Gar (Atractosteus Spatula) Armored Fish Scales”,  Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 9 (4), April 2013, pp. 5876-5889.
• B. Busse, H. A. Bale, E. A. Zimmermann, B. Panganiban, H. D. Barth, A. Carriero, E. Vettorazzi, J. Zustin, M. Hahn, J. W. Ager III, K. Püschel, M. Amling and R. O. Ritchie, “Vitamin-D Deficiency Induces Early Signs of Aging in Human Bone, Increasing the Risk of Fracture”, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 5 (193), July10, 2013, p. 193ra88.
• B. Ettinger, D. B. Burr, and R. O. Ritchie, “Proposed Pathogenesis for Atypical Femoral Fractures: Lessons from Materials Research”, Bone, vol. 55 (2), Aug. 2013, pp. 495-500.
• M. N. Rossol, J. Shaw, H. Bale, R. O. Ritchie, D. B. Marshall and F. W. Zok, “Characterizing Weave Geometry in Textile Ceramic Composites using Digital Image Correlation”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 96 (8), Aug. 2013, pp. 2362-2365.
• S. N. Raja, A. C. K. Olson, K. Thorkelsson, A. J. Luong, L. Hsueh, B. Gludovatz, G. Chang, J. J. Huang, J. Zhang, D. Jang, A. Y. Lu, T. Xu, L. Lin, R. O. Ritchie and A. P. Alivisatos, “Tetrapod Nanocrystals as Fluorescent Stress Probes of Electrospun Nanocomposites”, Nano Letters, vol. 13 (8), Aug. 2013, pp. 3915-3922.
• I. Gurevitch, R. Buonsanti, A. Teran, B. Gludovatz, R. O. Ritchie, R. Cabana and N. Balsara, “TiO2-SEO Block Copolymer Nanocomposites as Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries”, Journal of Electrochemical Society, vol. 160 (9), Sept. 2013, pp. A1611-1617.
• E. Boatman, R. Gronsky, M. B. Goodwin and R. O. Ritchie, “Elucidating the Nanoscale Structure of Dinosaur Bone”, Microscopy Today, vol. 21 (5), Sept. 2013, pp. 34-39.
• W. Yao, M. Guan, J. Jia, W. Dai, Y. E. Lay, S. Amugongo, R. Liu, D. Olivos, M. Saunders, K. Lam, J. Nolta, D. Olvera, R. O. Ritchie and N. E. Lane, “Reversing Bone Loss by Directing Mesenchymal Stem Cells to the Bone”, Stem Cells, vol. 31 (9), Sept. 2013, pp. 2003-2014.
• V. Naglieri, H. A. Bale, B. Gludovatz, A. P. Tomsia and R. O. Ritchie, “On the Development of Ice-Templated Silicon Carbide Scaffolds for Nature-Inspired Structural Materials”, Acta Materialia, vol. 61 (18), Oct. 2013 pp. 6948-6957.
• E. A. Zimmermann, B. Gludovatz, E. Schaible, N. K. N. Dave, W. Yang, M. A. Meyers and R. O. Ritchie, “Mechanical Adaptability of the Bouligand-Type Structure in Natural Dermal Armour”, Nature Communications, vol. 4, Oct. 2013, pp. 2634 (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ ncomms 3634).
• B. Gludovatz, M. D. Demetriou, M. Floyd, A. Hohenwarter, W. L. Johnson and R. O. Ritchie, “Enhanced Fatigue Endurance of Metallic Glasses through a “Staircase-like” Fracture Mechanism”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 110 (46), Nov. 2013, pp. 18419-18424. 
• S. E. Naleway, R. B. Greene, B. Gludovatz, N. K. N. Dave, R. O. Ritchie and J. J. Kruzic, “A Highly Fatigue Resistant Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glass”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 44A (13), Dec. 2013, pp. 5688-5693.
• B. Cox, H. Bale, M. Blacklock, B.-C. Do, D. Marshall, R. Ritchie, Q. Yang, F. Zok, and R. Rinaldi, “A Pipeline Approach to Developing Virtual Tests for Composite Materials”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Fracture, Beijing, China, 2013.
• R. O. Ritchie and M. E. Launey, “Crack Growth in Brittle and Ductile Solids”, in Encyclopedia of Tribology, Q. Jane Wang and Yip Wah Chung, eds., Springer Science, AZ Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2013, pp. 596-605.
• M. E. Launey and R. O. Ritchie, “Crack Growth in Noncrystalline Solids”, in Encyclopedia of Tribology, Q. Jane Wang and Yip Wah Chung, eds., Springer Science, AZ Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2013, pp. 606-612.
• B. N. Cox, H. A. Bale, M. Blacklock, T. Fast, M. Novak, V. Rajan, R. Rinaldi, R. O. Ritchie, M. Rossol, J. Shaw, Q. D. Yang, F. Zok, and D. B. Marshall,  “Stochastic Virtual Test Systems for Ceramic Composites”, Proceedings, Composites Week @ Leuven and TexComp-11 Conference, Leuven, Austria, Aug. 2013.
• B. Delattre, H. Bai, R. O. Ritchie, J. De Coninck, and A. P. Tomsia, “Unidirectional Freezing of Ceramics Suspensions: In Situ X-Ray Investigation of the Effects of Additives”, ACS Applied  Materials and Interfaces, vol. 6 (1), Jan. 2014, pp. 159-166.
• R. O. Ritchie, “Armoured Oyster Shells”, Nature Materials, vol. 13 (5), May 2014, pp. 435-437.
• B. Gludovatz, S. E. Naleway, R. O. Ritchie and J. J. Kruzic, “Size-Dependent Fracture Toughness of Bulk-Metallic Glasses”, Acta Materialia, vol. 70, May 2014, pp. 198-207.
• M. Genet, G. Couégnat, A. P. Tomsia and R. O. Ritchie, “Scaling Strength Distributions in Quasi-Brittle Materials from Micro to Macro Scales: A Computational Approach to Modeling Nature-Inspired Structural Ceramics”, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 68, Aug. 2014, pp. 93-106.
• E. A. Zimmermann, B. Gludovatz, E. Schaible, B. Busse and R. O. Ritchie, “Fracture Resistance of Human Cortical Bone Across Multiple Length-Scales at Physiological Strain Rates”, Biomaterials, vol. 35, 2014, pp. 5472-5481.
• S. K. Amugongo, W. Yao, J. Jia, Y.-A. E. Lay, W. Dai, Li Jiang, D. Walsh, C.-S. Li, N. K. N. Dave, D. Olvera, B. Panganiban, R. O. Ritchie and N. E. Lane, “Effects of Sequential Osteoporosis Treatments on Trabecular Bone Mass and Strength in Osteopenic Rats”, Osteoporosis International, published online, April 2014 (doi: 10.1007/s00198-014-2678-5).
• B. N. Cox, H. A. Bale, M. Begley, M. Blacklock, B. C. Do, T. Fast, M. Naderi, M. Novak, V. Rajan, R. G. Rinaldi, R. O. Ritchie, M. Rossol, J. Shaw, O. Sudre, Q. D. Yang, F. Zok and D. B. Marshall, “Stochastic Virtual Tests for High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites”, Annual Reviews in Materials Research, vol. 44, 2014, in press.
• S. K. Amugongo, Wei Yao, J. Jia, W. Dai, Y-A. E. Lay, L. Jiang, C.-S. Li,  D. Olvera, E. A. Zimmermann, E. Schaible, N. K. N. Dave, R. O. Ritchie and N. E. Lane, “Effect of Cyclical Treatments with Alendronate, Parathyroid Hormone (1-34) and Raloxifene on Cortical Bone Mass and Strength”, Bone, accepted for publication, 2014.
• A. Carriero, E. A. Zimmermann, A. Paluszny, S. Y. Tang, H. Bale, B. Busse, T. Alliston, G. Kazakia, R. O. Ritchie and S. J. Shefelbine, “How Tough is Brittle Bone? Investigating Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Mouse Bone,” Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, vol. 29, 2014, in press (http://dx.doi:10.1002/jbmr.2172).
• W. Yang, V. Sherman, B. Gludovatz, M. Mackey, E. A. Zimmermann, E. H. Chang, E. Schaible, Z. Qin, M. J. Buehler, R. O. Ritchie and M. A. Meyers, “Protective Role of Arapaima Gigas Fish Scales: Structure and Mechanical Behavior”, Acta Biomaterialia, accepted for publication, April  2014.