Self-healing materials: what can nature teach us?

Fatigue of Self-Healing Nanofiber-based Composites: Static Test and Subcritical Crack Propagation

(2016) Min Wook Lee et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

The fracture toughness of eggshell

(2016) David Taylor et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Finite element implementation and application of a cohesive zone damage-healing model for self-healing materials

(2016) Ammar A. Alsheghri et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

Self-healing capability and thixotropy of bituminous mastics

(2016) Giorgia Mazzoni et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE

Bridging the gap: wound healing in insects restores mechanical strength by targeted cuticle deposition

(2016) Eoin Parle et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Preparation of nacre-like composites by reactive infiltration of a magnesium alloy into porous silicon carbide derived from ice template

(2016) Heng Zhang et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

In situ observation of fracture behavior of canine cortical bone under bending

(2016) Zilan X. Lin et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Microdamage induced calcium efflux from bone matrix activates intracellular calcium signaling in osteoblasts via L-type and T-type voltage-gated calcium channels

(2015) Hyungjin Jung et al.   BONE

A competitive mechanism driven damage-plasticity model for fatigue behavior of concrete

(2015) Junsong Liang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DAMAGE MECHANICS

Mechanical loading up-regulates early remodeling signals from osteocytes subjected to physical damage

(2015) Chao Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Bone as a Structural Material

(2015) Elizabeth A. Zimmermann et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Osteocyte apoptosis is required for production of osteoclastogenic signals following bone fatigue in vivo

(2014) Oran D. Kennedy et al.   BONE

Quantitative evaluation of the displacement distribution and stress intensity factor of fatigue cracks healed by a controlled high-density electric current field

(2014) A. Hosoi et al.   FATIGUE & FRACTURE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS & STRUCTURES

Surface microcracks signal osteoblasts to regulate alignment and bone formation

(2014) Yutian Shu et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Osteocytic Canalicular Networks: Morphological Implications for Altered Mechanosensitivity

(2013) Petar Milovanovic et al.   ACS Nano

Defect-induced Au precipitation in Fe–Au and Fe–Au–B–N alloys studied by in situ small-angle neutron scattering

(2013) S. Zhang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Activation of resorption in fatigue-loaded bone involves both apoptosis and active pro-osteoclastogenic signaling by distinct osteocyte populations

(2012) Oran D. Kennedy et al.   BONE

Room-Temperature Polydimethylsiloxane-Based Self-Healing Polymers

(2012) Soo Hyoun Cho et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Shape optimization in exoskeletons and endoskeletons: a biomechanics analysis

(2012) D. Taylor et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Distribution of microcrack lengths in bone in vivo and in vitro

(2012) Gerardo Presbitero et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Iceberg Scour and Shell Damage in the Antarctic Bivalve Laternula elliptica

(2012) Elizabeth M. Harper et al.   PLoS One

Self-Healing Fibre Reinforced Composites via a Bioinspired Vasculature

(2011) Christopher J. Norris et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Rupture of osteocyte processes across microcracks: the effect of crack length and stress

(2011) Clodagh Dooley et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Use of silica gel or polyurethane immobilized bacteria for self-healing concrete

(2011) Jianyun Wang et al.   CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS

Finite Element Modeling of Microcrack Growth in Cortical Bone

(2011) Susan Mischinski et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Decrease in the osteocyte lacunar density accompanied by hypermineralized lacunar occlusion reveals failure and delay of remodeling in aged human bone

(2010) Björn Busse et al.   AGING CELL

Towards quantitative 3D imaging of the osteocyte lacuno-canalicular network

(2010) Philipp Schneider et al.   BONE

RANKL and OPG activity is regulated by injury size in networks of osteocyte-like cells

(2010) Lauren E. Mulcahy et al.   BONE

What we can't learn from nature

(2010) David Taylor   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

In situ crack-healing behavior of Al2O3/SiC composite ceramics undercyclic-fatigue strength

(2009) Sung-Po Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS IN HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Effects of Stride Length and Running Mileage on a Probabilistic Stress Fracture Model

(2009) W. BRENT EDWARDS et al.   MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Predicting the structural integrity of bone defects repaired using bone graft materials

(2008) Emma Brazel et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING