Diatoms represent the major component of phytoplankton and are responsible for about 20–
25% of global primary production. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution led to tens of …

Diatom frustules represent one of the most complex examples of micro-and nano-structured
materials found in nature, being the result of a biomineralization process refined through …

Diatoms microalgae can be regarded as living factories producing nanostructured and
mesoporous biosilica shells (frustules) having a highly ordered hierarchical architecture …

Diatom frustules, the intricately structured algal silica exoskeletons, have remarkable
mechanical properties and so are ideal candidates for various engineering applications …

Diatoms represent the most abundant and diversified class of primary producers in present
oceans; their distinctive trait is the ability to incorporate silicic acid in a silica outer shell …

The paper investigates the capabilities and limitations of five different numerical approaches
to the modeling of large strains of mushrooming projectiles on the example of a 9 mm …

Coscinodiscus genus, a type of diatoms with complex frustule, has been widely studied and
reported because of their delicate nanostructures. In this paper, a dual beam system focused …

Nowadays, we are going a step forward into the new era for the sustainable production of
industrial commodity products such as energy, fine-chemicals, active compounds and …

The abstraction of complex biological lightweight structure features into a producible
technical component is a fundamental step within the transfer of design principles from …

Unicellular euglyphid testate amoeba Paulinella micropora with filose pseudopodia secrete
approximately 50 siliceous scales into the extracellular template-free space to construct a …