Biological materials found in Nature such as nacre and bone are well recognized as light‐
weight, strong, and tough structural materials. The remarkable toughness and damage …

Living organisms have ingeniously evolved functional gradients and heterogeneities to
create high-performance biological materials from a fairly limited choice of elements and …

Throughout billions of years, biological systems have evolved sophisticated, multiscale
hierarchical structures to adapt to changing environments. Biomaterials are synthesized …

The execution and analysis of complex experiments are challenged by the vast
dimensionality of the underlying parameter spaces. Although an increase in data-acquisition …

Biological organic-inorganic materials remain a popular source of inspiration for bioinspired
materials design and engineering. Inspired by the self-assembling metal-reinforced mussel …

Natural materials have always attracted intensive attention from multidisciplinary scientists
all over the world. In fact, the ingenious and reasonable synthetic strategies of the limited …

The present review article is intended to direct attention to the technological advances made
in the 2010–2014 quinquennium for the isolation and manufacture of nanofibrillar chitin and …

Magnetite (Fe3O4) is a widespread magnetic iron oxide encountered in many biological and
geological systems, and also in many technological applications. The magnetic properties of …

Various organisms possess a genetic program that enables the controlled formation of a
mineral, a process termed biomineralization. The variety of biological material architectures …

A simple preparation of thermoreversible gelatin‐based ferrogels in water provides a
constant structure defined by the crosslinking degree for gelatin contents between 6 and 18 …