3D Printing of Materials with Tunable Failure via Bioinspired Mechanical Gradients

The microstructure and micromechanics of the tendon–bone insertion

(2017) L. Rossetti et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Functional gradients and heterogeneities in biological materials: Design principles, functions, and bioinspired applications

(2017) Zengqian Liu et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Material Gradients in Stretchable Substrates toward Integrated Electronic Functionality

(2016) Naser Naserifar et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioinspired Mechanical Gradients in Cellulose Nanofibril/Polymer Nanopapers

(2016) Baochun Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functionally graded materials for orthopedic applications – an update on design and manufacturing

(2016) Antonella Sola et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Microfluidic Printheads for Multimaterial 3D Printing of Viscoelastic Inks

(2015) James O. Hardin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ncorr: Open-Source 2D Digital Image Correlation Matlab Software

(2015) J. Blaber et al.   EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS

Design and Manufacturing Functionally Gradient Material Objects With an Off the Shelf Three-Dimensional Printer: Challenges and Solutions

(2015) Anthony Garland et al.   JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN

Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale

(2015) Thomas J. Ober et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent development in modeling and analysis of functionally graded materials and structures

(2015) Ankit Gupta et al.   PROGRESS IN AEROSPACE SCIENCES

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Multimaterial magnetically assisted 3D printing of composite materials

(2015) Dimitri Kokkinis et al.   Nature Communications

Modelling the Influence of Heterogeneous Annulus Material Property Distribution on Intervertebral Disk Mechanics

(2014) Giacomo Marini et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Overcoming the brittleness of glass through bio-inspiration and micro-architecture

(2014) M. Mirkhalaf et al.   Nature Communications

A natural functionally graded biocomposite coating – Human enamel

(2013) Li-Hong He et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Tough Composites Inspired by Mineralized Natural Materials: Computation, 3D printing, and Testing

(2013) Leon S. Dimas et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Dental implants from functionally graded materials

(2013) Mehdi Mehrali et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Longitudinal polymer gradient materials based on crosslinked polymers

(2013) Kai U. Claussen et al.   POLYMER

Freeze-form extrusion fabrication of functionally graded materials

(2012) Ming C. Leu et al.   CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

Mechanically induced chemiluminescence from polymers incorporating a 1,2-dioxetane unit in the main chain

(2012) Yulan Chen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Stretchable heterogeneous composites with extreme mechanical gradients

(2012) Rafael Libanori et al.   Nature Communications

Bending efficiency through property gradients in bamboo, palm, and wood-based composites

(2011) Ulrike G.K. Wegst   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Bi-material attachment through a compliant interfacial system at the tendon-to-bone insertion site

(2011) Y.X. Liu et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics

(2010) J. A. Rogers et al.   SCIENCE

Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Materials design principles of ancient fish armour

(2008) Benjamin J. F. Bruet et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Stiffness gradients in vascular bundles of the palm Washingtonia robusta

(2008) M. Ruggeberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES