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

The application of various materials in biomedical procedures has recently experienced
rapid growth. One area that is currently receiving significant attention from the scientific …

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 …

Importantly, with the advent of hybridoma and recombinant DNA technologies, the limitations
associated with the extraction and purification of pharmaceutical proteins from animal …

Biological materials are typically multifunctional but many have evolved to optimize a chief
mechanical function. These functions include impact or fracture resistance, armor and …

Many biological tissues, such as wood and bone, are fiber composites with a hierarchical
structure. Their exceptional mechanical properties are believed to be due to a functional …

Mollusc aquaculture is advocated as a highly sustainable food source and may play an
important role in future food security globally. With production increasing worldwide, it is …

One of the most intriguing protein materials found in nature is bone, a material composed of
assemblies of tropocollagen molecules and tiny hydroxyapatite mineral crystals that form an …

Biomimetics, a name coined by Otto Schmitt in the 1950s for the transfer of ideas and
analogues from biology to technology, has produced some significant and successful …

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