Bioinspired structural materials.

By U. Wegst, Hao Bai, E. Saiz, A. Tomsia, Robert O. Ritchie. Nature Materials, 2014

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Bioactive nanoengineered hydrogels for bone tissue engineering: a growth-factor-free approach. (2015, neutral): “3 Nanocomposite hydrogels are emerging biomaterials used for a range of tissue engineering approaches.(1-5) Hydrogels are able to mimic some of the physical and chemical properties of the”
Progress in research on hybrid metal matrix composites (2020, neutral): “The laminated structure can provide various toughening and strengthening mechanisms, leading to the materials that are both strong and damage-tolerant [10 e 12].”
Preparation and anisotropic properties of textured structural ceramics: A review (2019, background): “Besides, these organic layers can act as viscoelastic glue to prevent the deformation between aragonite platelets [57].”
Beautiful and Functional: A Review of Biomimetic Design in Additive Manufacturing (2019, background): “Biological materials often possess superior 21 mechanical properties due to unique combinations of hard and soft materials [40] and gradients 22 between them [41].”
Biomimetics and its tools (2017, background): “…describe the implementation of biological principles, patterns or systems in technology – for example, Arzt, 12 Meyers et al ., 13 Naleway et al. , 14 Wegst et al. , 15 Barthelat 16,17 and Chen et al. 18 These publications certainly describe the process of applying biomimetics, but they rather…”