Functional gradients and heterogeneities in biological materials: Design principles, functions, and bioinspired applications

Z Liu, MA Meyers, Z Zhang, RO Ritchie - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Living organisms have ingeniously evolved functional gradients and heterogeneities to
create high-performance biological materials from a fairly limited choice of elements and …

[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 …

Machinability of ultrasonic vibration-assisted micro-grinding in biological bone using nanolubricant

Y Yang, M Yang, C Li, R Li, Z Said, HM Ali… - Frontiers of Mechanical …, 2023 - Springer
Bone grinding is an essential and vital procedure in most surgical operations. Currently, the
insufficient cooling capacity of dry grinding, poor visibility of drip irrigation surgery area, and …

Biomimetic mechanical robust cement‐resin composites with machine learning‐assisted gradient hierarchical structures

Z Wu, H Pan, P Huang, J Tang, W She - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biological materials relying on hierarchically ordered architectures inspire the emergence of
advanced composites with mutually exclusive mechanical properties, but the efficient …

Design and fabrication of 3D printed scaffolds with a mechanical strength comparable to cortical bone to repair large bone defects

SI Roohani-Esfahani, P Newman, H Zreiqat - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A challenge in regenerating large bone defects under load is to create scaffolds with large
and interconnected pores while providing a compressive strength comparable to cortical …

Scalable manufacturing of mechanical robust bioinspired ceramic–resin composites with locally tunable heterogeneous structures

ZB Zhang, HL Gao, SM Wen, J Pang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lightweight structural materials with a unique combination of high stiffness, strength,
toughness, and hardness, are highly desired yet challenging to be artificially fabricated …

Variability and anisotropy of mechanical behavior of cortical bone in tension and compression

S Li, E Demirci, VV Silberschmidt - Journal of the mechanical behavior of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of cortical bone vary not only from bone to bone; they
demonstrate a spatial viability even within the same bone due to its changing microstructure …

Electrospinning of biomimetic fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering: a review

GZ Tan, Y Zhou - International Journal of Polymeric Materials and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fibrous microstructure has drawn extensive attention in tissue engineering due to its
common presence in connective and muscle tissues. This paper reviews the latest advances …

Structure and mechanical properties of selected protective systems in marine organisms

SE Naleway, JRA Taylor, MM Porter, MA Meyers… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Marine organisms have developed a wide variety of protective strategies to thrive in their
native environments. These biological materials, although formed from simple biopolymer …

Anisotropy properties of tissues: a basis for fabrication of biomimetic anisotropic scaffolds for tissue engineering

P Datta, V Vyas, S Dhara, AR Chowdhury… - Journal of Bionic …, 2019 - Springer
Tissue engineering has been a subject of extensive scientific exploration in the last two
decades making gradual inroads into clinical studies as well. Along with regenerative cells …