Following nature's design principles, biological entities have evolved to be highly efficient
and multifunctional to maximize all the available materials and structures and to survive in …

Nacre, the iridescent inner layer of seashells, displays an exceptional combination of
strength and toughness due to its 'brick-wall'architecture. Significant research has been …

Nature-inspired material design is driven by superior properties found in natural architected
materials and enabled by recent developments in additive manufacturing and machine …

Mantis shrimps use their dactyl club to strike multiple high-velocity impacts against stiff and
hard surfaces. To sustain the loads and dissipate energy, their club has evolved a complex …

The use of inorganic nanomaterials as “building blocks” and organic components as
“mortars” to build nanocomposites are particularly well-suited to optimize the performance of …

Ceramic electrochemical cells (CECs) are promising devices for clean and efficient energy
conversion and storage due to their high energy efficiency, more extended system durability …

Living organisms in nature have undergone continuous evolution over billions of years,
resulting in the formation of high-performance fracture-resistant biomineralized tissues such …

With the explosive growth of computational resources and data generation, deep machine
learning has been successfully employed in various applications. One important and …

Bioinspired nacre-like structures are effective in toughening materials, yet are difficult to
construct in magnesium-ceramic systems. Here, a set of magnesium-MAX phase composites …

Lattice-like materials featuring periodic planar tessellation of regular rigid blocks connected
by linear elastic interfaces and chiral or achiral properties are considered. The chirality …