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 …

Designing and manufacturing multi-functional, lightweight and high-performance body
armour materials and assemblies have attracted intense attention recently due to fast …

Mother-of-pearl, also known as nacre, is the iridescent material which forms the inner layer
of seashells from gastropods and bivalves. It is mostly made of microscopic ceramic tablets …

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies offer an attractive pathway towards the fabrication
of functional materials featuring complex heterogeneous architectures inspired by biological …

In contrast to synthetic materials, evolutionary developments in biology have resulted in
materials with remarkable structural properties, made out of relatively weak constituents …

Biomimetic material development takes inspiration from biological materials and organisms
that possess extraordinary properties or appearance, such as excellent mechanical strength …

Glasses are materials that lack a crystalline microstructure and long‐range atomic order.
Instead, they feature heterogeneity and disorder on superstructural scales, which have …

Nacre (mother-of-pearl), made of inorganic and organic constituents (95 vol% aragonite
calcium carbonate (CaCO3) platelets and 5 vol% elastic biopolymers), possesses a unique …

This work presents a novel design, additive manufacturing and modeling approach of three
dimensional voronoi-based composite structures that closely mimic nacre's multilayer …

Nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, is a hard biological composite found in the inside
layer of many shells such as oyster or abalone. It is composed of microscopic ceramic …