Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) emerge as a renewable and sustainable feedstock for future
biobased high-performance materials with environmentally friendly character. They allow for …

For many years, the inorganic content in nanocomposites has seldom exceeded 10 vol%.
Novel fabrication methods have been employed to incorporate high inorganic loading within …

Nanopapers formed by stiff and strong native cellulose nanofibrils are emerging as
mechanically robust and sustainable materials to replace high-performance plastics or as …

Nacre-mimetics hold great promise as mechanical high-performance and functional
materials. Here we demonstrate large progress of mechanical and functional properties of …

Natural high-performance materials inspire the pursuit of ordered hard/soft nanocomposite
structures at high fractions of reinforcements and with balanced molecular interactions …

Conspectus Bioinspired materials engineering impacts the design of advanced functional
materials across many domains of sciences from wetting behavior to optical and mechanical …

Designing the reversible interactions of biopolymers remains a grand challenge for an
integral mimicry of mechanically superior biological composites. Yet, they are the key to …

Nacre inspires researchers by combining stiffness with toughness by its unique
microstructure of aligned aragonite platelets. This brick‐and‐mortar structure of reinforcing …

The interfacial adhesion design between “mortar” and “bricks” is essential for mechanical
and barrier performance of nanocellulose-based nacre-mimetic nanocomposites, especially …

Synthetic mimics of natural high‐performance structural materials have shown great and
partly unforeseen opportunities for the design of multifunctional materials. For nacre‐mimetic …