New classes of tough composite materials—Lessons from natural rigid biological systems

By G. Mayer. 2006

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Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs (2012, methodology): “organic viscoelastic stretching of ligaments [37,55,358] [67,68], strain hardening of ligaments [362], crack bridging of ligaments [55], high degree of adhesion of the organic phase to inorganic [55,350,351].”
Architectured materials in engineering and biology: fabrication, structure, mechanics and performance (2015, background): “For example, Meyer reported a large-scale nacre-like material made of thin plates of aluminium oxide bonded with a highly deformable adhesive.(126) This material was assembled manually, so that the thickness, width and”
Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone - Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials (2009, background): “Model systems on the macroscopic scale can utilize this toughening mechanism while circumventing the many challenges of mimicking the shell architecture at the lm level [94,95].”