A damage-tolerant, dual-scale, single-crystalline microlattice in the knobby starfish, Protoreaster nodosus

T Yang, H Chen, Z Jia, Z Deng, L Chen, EM Peterman… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cellular solids (eg, foams and honeycombs) are widely found in natural and engineering
systems because of their high mechanical efficiency and tailorable properties. While these …

Mechanically efficient cellular materials inspired by cuttlebone

A Mao, N Zhao, Y Liang, H Bai - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cellular materials with excellent mechanical efficiency are essential for aerospace
structures, lightweight vehicles, and energy absorption. However, current synthetic cellular …

Beyond homogeneous dispersion: oriented conductive fillers for high κ nanocomposites

S Yu, X Shen, JK Kim - Materials horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Rational design of structures for regulating the thermal conductivities (κ) of materials is
critical to many components and products employed in electrical, electronic, energy …

3D‐printed mechanical metamaterials with high energy absorption

S Yuan, CK Chua, K Zhou - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, 3D metamaterials have been achieved with inaccessible mechanical properties in
natural materials such as negative Poisson's ratio, stiffness, and thermal expansion …

[HTML][HTML] Anisotropic compression behaviors of bio-inspired modified body-centered cubic lattices validated by additive manufacturing

P Wang, F Yang, G Lu, Y Bian, S Zhang… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bio-inspired lattices have been proved to possess better energy absorption capacity than
conventional structures. Here, the two-dimensional deep-sea glass sponge structure is …

High strength and damage-tolerance in echinoderm stereom as a natural bicontinuous ceramic cellular solid

T Yang, Z Jia, Z Wu, H Chen, Z Deng, L Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Due to their low damage tolerance, engineering ceramic foams are often limited to non-
structural usages. In this work, we report that stereom, a bioceramic cellular solid (relative …

Bio-inspired vertex modified lattice with enhanced mechanical properties

P Wang, F Yang, P Li, W Zhang, G Lu, H Fan - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional lattices usually exhibit tradeoff relations between their strength, deformation
stability and energy absorption capacity. Here, inspired by the local structure characters of …

Mechanical design of the highly porous cuttlebone: A bioceramic hard buoyancy tank for cuttlefish

T Yang, Z Jia, H Chen, Z Deng… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Cuttlefish, a unique group of marine mollusks, produces an internal biomineralized shell,
known as cuttlebone, which is an ultra-lightweight cellular structure (porosity,∼ 93 vol%) …

Recent advances of electrode materials based on nickel foam current collector for lithium-based batteries–A review

A Sadeghi, A Ghaffarinejad - Journal of Power Sources, 2024 - Elsevier
Three types of advanced lithium-ion (LIB), lithium-sulfur (LSB), and lithium-oxygen (LOB)
batteries are promising energy storage systems due to their high energy densities and …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low density architectured metamaterial with superior mechanical properties and energy absorption capability

Q Wang, Z Li, Y Zhang, S Cui, Z Yang, Z Lu - Composites Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
The material with negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) is a typical metamaterial, which is
considered to have great prospects in energy absorption, but the low modulus and low …