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

Tough and stiff composites with simple building blocks

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Influence of geometry on mechanical properties of bio-inspired silica-based hierarchical materials

(2012) Leon S Dimas et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

3D printing in X-ray and gamma-ray imaging: A novel method for fabricating high-density imaging apertures

(2011) Brian W. Miller et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Structural hierarchies define toughness and defect-tolerance despite simple and mechanically inferior brittle building blocks

(2011) Dipanjan Sen et al.   Scientific Reports

Nacre from mollusk shells: a model for high-performance structural materials

(2010) Francois Barthelat   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

ATOMISTICALLY-INFORMED MESOSCALE MODEL OF DEFORMATION AND FAILURE OF BIOINSPIRED HIERARCHICAL SILICA NANOCOMPOSITES

(2010) DIPANJAN SEN et al.   International Journal of Applied Mechanics

Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes

(2009) Shawn M. Douglas et al.   NATURE

Bio-Inspired, Smart, Multiscale Interfacial Materials

(2008) Fan Xia et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Diatoms, Biomineralization Processes, and Genomics

(2008) Mark Hildebrand   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Template Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials via Layer-by-Layer Assembly†

(2007) Yajun Wang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties

(2007) Marc André Meyers et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE