[HTML][HTML] Nature's Load-Bearing Design Principles and Their Application in Engineering: A Review

F Breish, C Hamm, S Andresen - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Biological structures optimized through natural selection provide valuable insights for
engineering load-bearing components. This paper reviews six key strategies evolved in …

Forging out-of-equilibrium supramolecular gels

S Bianco, F Hallam Stewart, S Panja, A Zyar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The design of supramolecular hydrogels comprising aligned domains is important for the
fabrication of biomimetic materials and applications in optoelectronics. One way to access …

[HTML][HTML] New opportunities for time-resolved imaging using diffraction-limited storage rings

Z Yao, J Rogalinski, EM Asimakopoulou… - Synchrotron …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
The advent of diffraction-limited storage rings (DLSRs) has boosted the brilliance or
coherent flux by one to two orders of magnitude with respect to the previous generation. One …

3D Imaging of directional multi-scale cellulose nanostructures through multi-directional dark-field neutron tomography

M Busi, E Nocerino, A Åhl, L Bergström… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Hierarchical biomaterials embody nature's intricate design principles, offering advanced
functionalities through the complex, multi-level organization of their molecular and …

Propagation of Orientation Across Lengthscales in Sheared Self‐Assembling Hierarchical Suspensions via Rheo‐PLI‐SAXS

R Ghanbari, A Terry, S Wojno, M Bek… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous rheological, polarized light imaging, and small‐angle X‐ray scattering
experiments (Rheo‐PLI‐SAXS) are developed, thereby providing unprecedented level of …

[HTML][HTML] Painting Taylor vortices with cellulose nanocrystals: Suspension flow supercritical spectral dynamics

R Ghanbari, S Pashazadeh, K Sekar, K Nygård… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We study the flow stability and spatiotemporal spectral dynamics of cellulose nanocrystal
(CNC) suspensions in a custom Taylor–Couette flow cell using the intrinsic shear induced …

Synchrotron X-Ray Multi-Projection Imaging for Multiphase Flow

T Rosén, Z Yao, J Tejbo, P Wegele… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multiphase flows, characterized by the presence of particles, bubbles, or droplets dispersed
within a fluid, are ubiquitous in natural and industrial processes. Studying densely dispersed …

Zooming into Hierarchical Materials by Combined Microtomographic and Scattering-Based Imaging

M Viljanen, C Appel, E Larsson… - Synchrotron …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Many natural and synthetic materials are hierarchical, ie, they consist of important structures
at several different length scales that govern the material's properties [1, 2]. This is illustrated …

Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Cellulose: Interpretating X-ray scattering data of fibrous paper material

N Tabudlong Jonasson - 2024 - diva-portal.org
The purpose of this study was to investigate the atomic-level structural changes in
cellulosebased materials for varying moisture content, crucial for understanding the …