With excellent mechanical properties and structural form, bamboo has attracted more and
more scientists' attention. Biomimetics is a bridge connecting the advantages of organisms …

Biological structures optimized through natural selection provide valuable insights for
engineering load-bearing components. This paper reviews six key strategies evolved in …

Over the past decades, the demand for high-performance materials with lightweight and
enhanced mechanical properties has gradually increased. The cellular structure …

The Volkswagen AutoUni offers scientists and PhD students of the Volkswagen Group the
opportunity to publish their scientific results as monographs or doctor's theses within the …

With intensified market competition, product development procedure is accelerated,
requiring rapid product innovation and efficient collaboration between design and …

Sandwich structures are widely used in aviation and aerospace fields because they can
absorb vast energy due to their excellent continuous compression behaviors. And in this …

The glass sponge is a porous lightweight structure in the deep sea. It has high toughness,
high strength, and high stability. In this work, a super-depth-of-field microscope was …

Carbon emission has become a recent global concern for green manufacturing. Production
is one of the main sources of carbon emission. As the design of a product determines over …

Biological structures have excellent mechanical performances including lightweight, high
stiffness, etc. However, these are difficult to apply directly to some given complex structures …

Diatoms, a class of aquatic autotrophic microorganisms, are characterized by silicified
exoskeletons with highly complex architectures. These morphologies have been shaped by …