Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 32, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705220
Keywords
bioinspiration; biological materials; gradients; hierarchical structures; mechanical properties
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- Multi-University Research Initiative from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research [AFOSR-FA9550-15-1-0009]
- University of California Berkeley
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51501190, 51331007]
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Biological material systems have evolved unique combinations of mechanical properties to fulfill their specific function through a series of ingenious designs. Seeking lessons from Nature by replicating the underlying principles of such biological materials offers new promise for creating unique combinations of properties in man-made systems. One case in point is Nature's means of attack and defense. During the long-term evolutionary arms race, naturally evolved weapons have achieved exceptional mechanical efficiency with a synergy of effective offense and persistencetwo characteristics that often tend to be mutually exclusive in many synthetic systemswhich may present a notable source of new materials science knowledge and inspiration. This review categorizes Nature's weapons into ten distinct groups, and discusses the unique structural and mechanical designs of each group by taking representative systems as examples. The approach described is to extract the common principles underlying such designs that could be translated into man-made materials. Further, recent advances in replicating the design principles of natural weapons at differing lengthscales in artificial materials, devices and tools to tackle practical problems are revisited, and the challenges associated with biological and bioinspired materials research in terms of both processing and properties are discussed.
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