Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of
availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …

Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and
mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems …

Cellular materials with excellent mechanical efficiency are essential for aerospace
structures, lightweight vehicles, and energy absorption. However, current synthetic cellular …

RNA editing, a post-transcriptional process, allows the diversification of proteomes beyond
the genomic blueprint; however it is infrequently used among animals for this purpose …

Since the discovery of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) in 2003, significant progress has been
made in the field, specifically advancing aspects of their preparation and physicochemical …

Cuttlefish, a unique group of marine mollusks, produces an internal biomineralized shell,
known as cuttlebone, which is an ultra-lightweight cellular structure (porosity,∼ 93 vol%) …

Abstract Hydroxyapatite (HA), a bioceramic, is a widely utilized material for bone tissue
repair and regeneration because of its excellent properties such as biocompatibility …

Biomineralized materials are sophisticated material systems with hierarchical 3D material
architectures, which are broadly used as model systems for fundamental mechanical …

Molluscs are grand masters in the fabrication of shells, because these are composed of the
largest variety of microstructures found among invertebrates. Molluscan microstructures are …

Abstracts Food industry's wastes such as eggshell, bones and seafood shells that are
usually piled up in landfill can indeed serve as an excellent precursor to form bioceramic …