Gruenewald Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2021

TexTOM - X-ray texture tomography as a tool to enable, multi-scale, in-situ imaging of the enthesis, a biological hinge between bone and tendon

Hierarchical structures are signature elements of many biological and technical materials. The orientational distribution of their crystalline constituents (the crystallographic texture) is important for their mechanical properties. Resolving the local structure and orientation spatially while keeping a large field of view is an unsolved problem. I will solve this by introducing texture tomography, a new 3D x-ray diffraction imaging method, the core of the TexTOM project. It will enable to study the enthesis, the biological connection between tendon and bone, and by in-situ deformation and micromechanical modelling, couple its hierarchical structure with the mechanical behaviour. I will use…

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