Following nature's design principles, biological entities have evolved to be highly efficient
and multifunctional to maximize all the available materials and structures and to survive in …

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 …

Nature utilizes the available resources to construct lightweight, strong and tough materials
under constrained environmental conditions. The impact surface of the fast-striking dactyl …

High-performance/multifunctional metallic components primarily determine the service
performance of equipment applied in the aerospace, aviation, and automobile industries …

Bioinspired architectural design for composites with much higher fracture resistance than
that of individual constituent remains a major challenge for engineers and scientists …

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 …

Additive manufacturing (AM) brings out a revolution of how the products are designed and
manufactured. To obtain desired components, advanced design for additive manufacturing …

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 …

Exoskeletons of Odontodactylus japonicas, the" smasher-type" mantis shrimp, feature a
raptorial appendage comprising a Bouligand architecture of chitin nanofibrils with newly …

Living organisms in nature have undergone continuous evolution over billions of years,
resulting in the formation of high-performance fracture-resistant biomineralized tissues such …