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 …

Materials science and architecture

M Bechthold, JC Weaver - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Materiality—the use of various materials in architecture—has been fundamental to the
design and construction of buildings, and materials science has traditionally responded to …

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 …

Highly strain-rate sensitive and ductile composite materials combining soft with stiff TPMS polymer-based interpenetrating phases

A Singh, O Al-Ketan, N Karathanasopoulos - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
The current work investigates the engineering of strain-rate sensitive and ductile composites
through the combination of stiff, triply-periodic-minimal-surface (TPMS) with soft, rubber-type …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical performance of solid and sheet network-based stochastic interpenetrating phase composite materials

A Singh, O Al-Ketan, N Karathanasopoulos - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature-inspired architected materials premise effective property combinations that are well
beyond the limits of classical engineering materials. The current study expands the concept …

3D customized triboelectric nanogenerator with high performance achieved via charge-trapping effect and strain-mismatching friction

YW Kim, HB Lee, J Yoon, SH Park - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
We developed a high-performance triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) synergistically
integrated with three-dimensional customized interfaces. Based on an electrospun …

Enhanced fracture toughness in architected interpenetrating phase composites by 3D printing

T Li, Y Chen, L Wang - Composites Science and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Interpenetrating phase composite (IPC), also known as co-continuous composite, is one
type of material that may exhibit an unusual combination of high stiffness, strength, energy …

Nonlocal interaction engineering of 2D roton-like dispersion relations in acoustic and mechanical metamaterials

K Wang, Y Chen, M Kadic, C Wang… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The interior of the synthetic unit cells and their interactions determine the wave properties of
metamaterials composed of periodic lattices of these cells. While local interactions with the …

Material characterisation of additively manufactured elastomers at different strain rates and build orientations

FF Abayazid, M Ghajari - Additive Manufacturing, 2020 - Elsevier
Material jetting, particularly PolyJet technology, is an additive manufacturing (AM) process
which has introduced novel flexible elastomers used in bio-inspired soft robots, compliant …

Towards mechanical characterization of soft digital materials for multimaterial 3D-printing

V Slesarenko, S Rudykh - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
We study mechanical behavior of soft rubber-like digital materials used in Polyjet multi-
material 3D-printing to create deformable composite materials and flexible structures. These …