The hierarchical structure and mechanics of plant materials

By L. Gibson. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2012

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Mechanical Engineering, Plant Science

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In Biomaterials

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2. M. Meyers
3. Zhefeng Zhang
4. Zengqian Liu
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In Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• The cell biology of lignification in higher plants. (2015, neutral): “Gibson LJ. 2012.”
• Nanofibrils in nature and materials engineering (2018, background): “Cellulose consists of a linear chain of β-(1,4)-linked d-glucose units4,5, and chitin is made of a long-chain polymer of (1,4)-β-N-acetylglucosamine155.”
• Functional gradients and heterogeneities in biological materials: Design principles, functions, and bioinspired applications (2017, background): “from center to periphery in the stem of the palm tree Iriartea gigantean, leading to non-uniform distributions of both local mechanical strength rc and stress r and a close match between them [38,89]; (b) finite element analysis simulation reveals the contours of stress, plastic strain and pressure ”
• Microbial cellulolytic enzymes: diversity and biotechnology with reference to lignocellulosic biomass degradation (2020, background): “Unlike cellulose (containing 7000–15,000 glucose molecules per polymer), hemicellulose is a branched polymer with shorter chain of around 500–3000 sugar units and lack crystalline structure (Ali and Gibson 2013; Gibson 2012).”
• Morphology, Structure, and Mechanical Properties of Natural Cellulose Fiber from Mendong Grass (Fimbristylis globulosa) (2014, background): “The elastic modulus of the crystalline cellulose I and noncrystalline regions are 138 GPa (Nishino et al. 1995) and 3 GPa (Gibson 2012), respectively.”
• Sap flow and sugar transport in plants (2016, background): “These include honeycomb, foamlike, and helical structures (Niklas, 1994; Karam, 2005; Tekoglu et al., 2011; Wegst, 2011; Carlquist, 2012; Gibson, 2012; Ali and Gibson, 2013).”