About the Authors

Cécile M. Bidan

Cecile.Bidan@mpikg.mpg.de (CB); John.Dunlop@mpikg.mpg.de (JD)

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Krishna P. Kommareddy

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Monika Rumpler

Affiliation Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling, 1st Medical Department, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria

Philip Kollmannsberger

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Yves J. M. Bréchet

Affiliation Materials and Processes Science and Engineering Laboratory (SIMaP), Grenoble, France

Peter Fratzl

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

John W. C. Dunlop

Cecile.Bidan@mpikg.mpg.de (CB); John.Dunlop@mpikg.mpg.de (JD)

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB KK MR PK YB PF JD. Performed the experiments: CB KK MR. Analyzed the data: CB KK MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR. Wrote the paper: CB PK PF JD. Establishment of the simple geometrical model: CB PK YB PF JD.