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Natural Composite Systems for Bioinspired Materials.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

Frezzo JA, Montclare JK.
PMID: 27677512
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2016;940:143-166. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39196-0_7.

From a relatively limited selection of base materials, nature has steered the development of truly remarkable materials. The simplest and often overlooked organisms have demonstrated the ability to manufacture multi-faceted, molecular-level hierarchical structures that combine mechanical properties rarely seen...

Retrieval of relevant parameters of natural multilayer systems by means of bio-inspired optimization strategies.

Applied optics

Macías D, Luna A, Skigin D, Inchaussandague M, Vial A, Schinca D.
PMID: 23670781
Appl Opt. 2013 Apr 10;52(11):2511-20. doi: 10.1364/AO.52.002511.

Natural photonic structures exhibit remarkable color effects such as metallic appearance and iridescence. A rigorous study of the electromagnetic response of such complex structures requires to accurately determine some of their relevant optical parameters, such as the refractive indices...

Shell buckling: from morphogenesis of soft matter to prospective applications.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics

Lin S, Xie YM, Li Q, Huang X, Zhang Z, Ma G, Zhou S.
PMID: 29923834
Bioinspir Biomim. 2018 Jul 20;13(5):051001. doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/aacdd1.

Being one of the commonest deformation modes for soft matter, shell buckling is the primary reason for the growth and nastic movement of many plants, as well as the formation of complex natural morphology. On-demand regulation of buckling-induced deformation...

Guiding Lights: Tissue Bioprinting Using Photoactivated Materials.

Chemical reviews

Lee M, Rizzo R, Surman F, Zenobi-Wong M.
PMID: 32662642
Chem Rev. 2020 Oct 14;120(19):10950-11027. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00077. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Photoactivated materials have found widespread use in biological and medical applications and are playing an increasingly important role in the nascent field of three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. Light can be used as a trigger to drive the formation or the...

Introduction to biomimetic therapeutics.

Biomaterials science

Huang Y, Gao J.
PMID: 32003767
Biomater Sci. 2020 Feb 21;8(4):1017-1019. doi: 10.1039/d0bm90007a. Epub 2020 Jan 31.

No abstract available.

Strain-engineered manufacturing of freeform carbon nanotube microstructures.

Nature communications

De Volder M, Park S, Tawfick S, Hart AJ.
PMID: 25072599
Nat Commun. 2014 Jul 29;5:4512. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5512.

The skins of many plants and animals have intricate microscale surface features that give rise to properties such as directed water repellency and adhesion, camouflage, and resistance to fouling. However, engineered mimicry of these designs has been restrained by...

Orientation-Induced Effects of Water Harvesting on Humps-on-Strings of Bioinspired Fibers.

Scientific reports

Chen Y, Li D, Wang T, Zheng Y.
PMID: 26812942
Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 27;6:19978. doi: 10.1038/srep19978.

Smart water-collecting functions are naturally endowed on biological surfaces with unique wettable microstructures, e.g., beetle back with "alternate hydrophobic, hydrophilic micro-regions", and spider silk with wet-rebuilt "spindle-knot, joint" structures. Enlightened by the creature features, design of bio-inspired surfaces becomes...

Nanofluidics in two-dimensional layered materials: inspirations from nature.

Chemical Society reviews

Gao J, Feng Y, Guo W, Jiang L.
PMID: 28722059
Chem Soc Rev. 2017 Aug 29;46(17):5400-5424. doi: 10.1039/c7cs00369b.

With the advance of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology, significant progress has been achieved in the design and application of synthetic nanofluidic devices and materials, mimicking the gating, rectifying, and adaptive functions of biological ion channels. Fundamental physics and...

On the fracture mechanisms of nacre: Effects of structural orientation.

Journal of biomechanics

Jiao D, Qu RT, Weng ZY, Liu ZQ, Zhang ZF.
PMID: 31540823
J Biomech. 2019 Nov 11;96:109336. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.109336. Epub 2019 Sep 12.

The nacre of mollusk shells is distinguished by an exceptional mechanical efficiency which is derived essentially from its lamellar structure and frequently acts as a source of inspiration for the development of biomimetic materials. The structure and mechanical properties...

Biologically inspired dynamic material systems.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

Studart AR.
PMID: 25583299
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2015 Mar 09;54(11):3400-16. doi: 10.1002/anie.201410139. Epub 2015 Jan 12.

Numerous examples of material systems that dynamically interact with and adapt to the surrounding environment are found in nature, from hair-based mechanoreceptors in animals to self-shaping seed dispersal units in plants to remodeling bone in vertebrates. Inspired by such...

Towards Design of Self-Organizing Biomimetic Systems.

Advanced biosystems

Wölfer C, Mangold M, Flassig RJ.
PMID: 32648706
Adv Biosyst. 2019 Jun;3(6):e1800320. doi: 10.1002/adbi.201800320. Epub 2019 Mar 28.

The ability of designing biosynthetic systems with well-defined functional biomodules from scratch is an ambitious and revolutionary goal to deliver innovative, engineered solutions to future challenges in biotechnology and process systems engineering. In this work, several key challenges including...

Decentralized manufacturing for biomimetics through cooperation of digitization and nanomaterial design.

Nanoscale

Xiao M, Yang H, Xiao Q, Zhang H, Chen X.
PMID: 31281908
Nanoscale. 2019 Oct 25;11(41):19179-19189. doi: 10.1039/c9nr00667b.

The blooming development of biomimetics has demonstrated infinite possibilities in providing solutions for our technical or engineering problems. Therefore, it makes sense to develop an efficient manufacturing system for biomimetic products to transfer biological techniques to engineering. Compared with...

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