The field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine relies heavily on materials
capable of implantation without significant foreign body reactions and with the ability to …

The Voigt estimation or the rule of mixture has been believed to be the upper bound of the
effective Young's modulus of composites. However, this is only true in the situations where …

Designing lightweight high-performance materials that can sustain high impulsive loadings
is of great interest to marine and civil applications. When designing tough, strong new …

We investigate the elastic wave propagation in bio-inspired hierarchical composites with
nacre-like and biocalcite-like architectures. These two types of architectures consist of hard …

Nacre is attracting attention in the field of bionic materials due to the lightweight and high-
strength properties. Inspired by the micro layered structure of nacre, a 3D Voronoi polygons …

A fractional approach based on the generalized Taylor's formula is proposed to describe the
dynamic responses in the meso-discontinuous medium (eg, oyster shell). The governing …

An exceptional combination of mechanical properties such as high stiffness, high strength,
and high toughness makes nacre one of the most remarkable natural materials. It has been …

Periodic composite materials have many promising applications due to their unique ability to
control the propagation of waves. Here, we report the existence and frequency tunability of …

While the surface asperities of mineral platelets are widely believed to play important roles
in stiffening, strengthening, and toughening nacre, their effects have not been thoroughly …

The macroscopic tensile deformation behavior of bulk PA6 was investigated in the elastic
strain range. Samples having predominant α and β crystal structures were prepared thanks …