Beautiful and functional: a review of biomimetic design in additive manufacturing

A Du Plessis, C Broeckhoven, I Yadroitsava… - Additive …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review article summarizes the current state-of-the-art for biomimicry in additive
manufacturing. Biomimicry is the practice of learning from and emulating nature-which can …

Biological composites—complex structures for functional diversity

M Eder, S Amini, P Fratzl - Science, 2018 - science.org
The bulk of Earth's biological materials consist of few base substances—essentially proteins,
polysaccharides, and minerals—that assemble into large varieties of structures …

An all-natural bioinspired structural material for plastic replacement

QF Guan, HB Yang, ZM Han, ZC Ling, SH Yu - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Petroleum-based plastics are useful but they pose a great threat to the environment and
human health. It is highly desirable yet challenging to develop sustainable structural …

Synthetic nacre by predesigned matrix-directed mineralization

LB Mao, HL Gao, HB Yao, L Liu, H Cölfen, G Liu… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Although biomimetic designs are expected to play a key role in exploring future structural
materials, facile fabrication of bulk biomimetic materials under ambient conditions remains a …

Bioinspired neuron-like electronics

X Yang, T Zhou, TJ Zwang, G Hong, Y Zhao… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
As an important application of functional biomaterials, neural probes have contributed
substantially to studying the brain. Bioinspired and biomimetic strategies have begun to be …

New insights and perspectives into biological materials for flexible electronics

L Wang, D Chen, K Jiang, G Shen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological materials have robust hierarchical structures capable of specialized functions and
the incorporation of natural biologically active components, which have been finely tuned …

Double‐layer nacre‐inspired polyimide‐mica nanocomposite films with excellent mechanical stability for LEO environmental conditions

XF Pan, B Wu, HL Gao, SM Chen, YB Zhu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their outstanding comprehensive performance, polyimide (PI) composite films are
widely used on the external surfaces of spacecraft to protect them from the adverse …

Advancing the mechanical performance of glasses: perspectives and challenges

L Wondraczek, E Bouchbinder, A Ehrlicher… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glasses are materials that lack a crystalline microstructure and long‐range atomic order.
Instead, they feature heterogeneity and disorder on superstructural scales, which have …

Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

C Krupenye, F Kano, S Hirata, J Call, M Tomasello - Science, 2016 - science.org
Humans operate with a “theory of mind” with which they are able to understand that others'
actions are driven not by reality but by beliefs about reality, even when those beliefs are …

Biomineralization: from material tactics to biological strategy

S Yao, B **, Z Liu, C Shao, R Zhao, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Biomineralization is an important tactic by which biological organisms produce hierarchically
structured minerals with marvellous functions. Biomineralization studies typically focus on …