Chitin derived from the seafood wastes such as waste crab, shrimp and lobster shells is
abundant and renewable, and will become one of the most important chemical raw …

Digital light processing (DLP) based 3D printing is a well recognized area with tremendous
technical and commercial potential. The printing process is essentially a photochemical …

Crystal Plasticity (CP) modeling is a powerful and well established computational materials
science tool to investigate mechanical structure–property relations in crystalline materials. It …

Chitin is one of the most abundant biopolymers, and it has adopted many different structural
conformations using a combination of different natural processes like biopolymerization …

Nature has evolved efficient strategies to synthesize complex mineralized structures that
exhibit exceptional damage tolerance. One such example is found in the hypermineralized …

Many natural structures out-perform the conventional synthetic counterparts due to the
specially evolved reinforcement architectures. Here we report an electrically assisted …

The Bouligand structure, which is found in many biological materials, is a hierarchical
architecture that features uniaxial fiber layers assembled periodically into a helicoidal …

Chitin nanofibrils (NCh,∼ 10 nm lateral size) were produced under conditions that were less
severe compared to those for other biomass-derived nanomaterials and used to formulate …

The Bouligand structure in some arthropods is a hierarchical composite comprised of a
helicoidal arrangement of strong fibers in a weak matrix. In this study, we focus on the …

The property of being stubborn and degradation resistant makes nanoplastic (NP) pollution
a long-standing remaining challenge. Here, we apply a designed top-down strategy to …