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 …

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 …

Structural design elements in biological materials: application to bioinspiration

SE Naleway, MM Porter, J McKittrick… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Eight structural elements in biological materials are identified as the most common amongst
a variety of animal taxa. These are proposed as a new paradigm in the field of biological …

Structural biological materials: critical mechanics-materials connections

MA Meyers, J McKittrick, PY Chen - science, 2013 - science.org
Spider silk is extraordinarily strong, mollusk shells and bone are tough, and porcupine quills
and feathers resist buckling. How are these notable properties achieved? The building …

Biological materials: functional adaptations and bioinspired designs

PY Chen, J McKittrick, MA Meyers - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Biological materials are typically multifunctional but many have evolved to optimize a chief
mechanical function. These functions include impact or fracture resistance, armor and …

On the mechanistic origins of toughness in bone

ME Launey, MJ Buehler… - Annual review of materials …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Calcium orthophosphates in nature, biology and medicine

SV Dorozhkin - Materials, 2009 - mdpi.com
The present overview is intended to point the readers' attention to the important subject of
calcium orthophosphates. These materials are of the special significance because they …

Calcium orthophosphates (CaPO4): occurrence and properties

SV Dorozhkin - Progress in biomaterials, 2016 - Springer
The present overview is intended to point the readers' attention to the important subject of
calcium orthophosphates (CaPO 4). This type of materials is of the special significance for …

Calcium orthophosphates: occurrence, properties, biomineralization, pathological calcification and biomimetic applications

SV Dorozhkin - Biomatter, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The present overview is intended to point the readers' attention to the important subject of
calcium orthophosphates. This type of materials is of special significance for human beings …

Recent advances in high-strength and high-toughness polyurethanes based on supramolecular interactions

J Xu, X Wang, H Ruan, X Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Yang… - Polymer …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent developments in supramolecular chemistry have generated increasing interest in
supramolecular polymers and opened a window for the exploitation of various …