Multiscale toughening mechanisms in biological materials and bioinspired designs

W Huang, D Restrepo, JY Jung, FY Su, Z Liu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Inspiration from Nature's body armours–A review of biological and bioinspired composites

A Ghazlan, T Ngo, P Tan, YM Xie, P Tran… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Designing and manufacturing multi-functional, lightweight and high-performance body
armour materials and assemblies have attracted intense attention recently due to fast …

A natural impact-resistant bicontinuous composite nanoparticle coating

W Huang, M Shishehbor, N Guarín-Zapata… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Nature utilizes the available resources to construct lightweight, strong and tough materials
under constrained environmental conditions. The impact surface of the fast-striking dactyl …

[图书][B] Biology and evolution of the mollusca, volume 1

WF Ponder, DR Lindberg, JM Ponder - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Bioinspired design toward nanocellulose-based materials

X Zhao, S Bhagia, D Gomez-Maldonado, X Tang… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature provides lots of inspiration for material and structural design for various applications.
Deriving design principles from the investigation of nature can provide a rich source of …

Micro‐/nanostructured mechanical metamaterials

JH Lee, JP Singer, EL Thomas - Advanced materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanical properties of materials have long been one of the most fundamental and studied
areas of materials science for a myriad of applications. Recently, mechanical metamaterials …

[HTML][HTML] Bimaterial 3D printing and numerical analysis of bio-inspired composite structures under in-plane and transverse loadings

P Tran, TD Ngo, A Ghazlan, D Hui - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This work presents a novel design, additive manufacturing and modeling approach of three
dimensional voronoi-based composite structures that closely mimic nacre's multilayer …

Ultratough artificial nacre based on conjugated cross‐linked graphene oxide

Q Cheng, M Wu, M Li, L Jiang, Z Tang - Angewandte Chemie, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Natural nacre, which consists of almost 95 vol% inorganic content (calcium carbonate) and 5
vol% elastic biopolymers, possesses a unique combination of remarkable strength and …

Synergistic toughening of bioinspired poly (vinyl alcohol)–clay–nanofibrillar cellulose artificial nacre

J Wang, Q Cheng, L Lin, L Jiang - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
Inspired by the layered aragonite platelet/nanofibrillar chitin/protein ternary structure and
integration of extraordinary strength and toughness of natural nacre, artificial nacre based …

Strong and tough polylactic acid based composites enabled by simultaneous reinforcement and interfacial compatibilization of microfibrillated cellulose

L He, F Song, DF Li, X Zhao, XL Wang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
As one of the most important biobased and biodegradable polymers with a promising
commercial prospect, polylactic acid (PLA) has gained increasing interest. Nevertheless, its …