Guidelines derived from biomineralized tissues for design and construction of high-performance biomimetic materials: from weak to strong

HP Yu, YJ Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Living organisms in nature have undergone continuous evolution over billions of years,
resulting in the formation of high-performance fracture-resistant biomineralized tissues such …

Bioinspired additive manufacturing of hierarchical materials: From biostructures to functions

J Wei, F Pan, H **, K Yang, Y Wang, Q Wang, Z Fu - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Throughout billions of years, biological systems have evolved sophisticated, multiscale
hierarchical structures to adapt to changing environments. Biomaterials are synthesized …

[HTML][HTML] Additive manufacturing in armor and military applications: research, materials, processing technologies, perspectives, and challenges

HA Colorado, CA Cardenas… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review systematically examines the use of additive manufacturing (AM), also known as
3D printing (3DP), in the various aspects of military applications such as firearms, armor and …

Anomalous inapplicability of nacre-like architectures as impact-resistant templates in a wide range of impact velocities

X Zhang, K Wu, Y Ni, L He - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Nacre is generally regarded as tough body armor, but it was often smashed by predators
with a certain striking speed. Nacre-like architectures have been demonstrated to dissipate …

Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation

T Chen, X Yang, B Zhang, J Li, J Pan, Y Wang - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Biological organisms often have remarkable multifunctionality through intricate structures,
such as concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation in the octopus. Soft robots, which …

[HTML][HTML] Biomimetic armour design strategies for additive manufacturing: A review

MK Islam, PJ Hazell, JP Escobedo, H Wang - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Nature has a wide range of biological protection strategies that show resilience to impact
loading. These strategies also serve a certain amount of flexibility that contribute to body …

[HTML][HTML] A review of impact resistant biological and bioinspired materials and structures

BS Lazarus, A Velasco-Hogan, T Gómez-del Río… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biological systems must have the capability to withstand impacts generated during collisions
due to combat and defense. Thus, evolution has created complex materials' architectures at …

Electrochemical detection of a few copies of unamplified SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acids by a self-actuated molecular system

D Ji, M Guo, Y Wu, W Liu, S Luo, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The existing electrochemical biosensors lack controllable and intelligent merit to modulate
the sensing process upon external stimulus, leading to challenges in analyzing a few copies …

[HTML][HTML] Laser additive manufacturing of bio-inspired metallic structures

J Yang, D Gu, K Lin, Y Zhang, M Guo, L Yuan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-performance/multifunctional metallic components primarily determine the service
performance of equipment applied in the aerospace, aviation, and automobile industries …

Compressive resistance of the bio-inspired cuttlebone-like sandwich structure under quasi-static load

CY Cui, L Chen, S Feng, XG Cui, JZ Lu - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspired by cuttlebone, this study proposes a bioinspired metallic sandwich structure with
matrix material of Ti-6Al-4V prepared by selective laser melting method. The bioinspired …