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Abstract Biopolymers and bioinspired materials contribute to the construction of intricate hierarchical structures that exhibit advanced properties. The remarkable toughness and damage tolerance of such multilevel materials are conferred through the hierarchical assembly of their multiscale (i.e., atomistic to macroscale) components and architectures. Here, the functionality and mechanisms of biopolymers and bio‐inspired materials at multilength scales are explored and summarized, focusing on biopolymer nanofibril configurations, biocompatible synthetic biopolymers, and bio‐inspired composites. Their modeling methods with theoretical basis at multiple lengths and time scales are reviewed for biopolymer applications. Additionally, the exploration of artificial intelligence‐powered methodologies is emphasized to realize improvements in these biopolymers from functionality, biodegradability, and sustainability to their characterization, fabrication process, and superior designs. Ultimately, a promising future for these versatile materials in the manufacturing of advanced materials across wider applications and greater lifecycle impacts is foreseen.
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Fish scale inspired structures - a review of materials, manufacturing and models
Abstract Fish scales inspired materials platform can provide advanced mechanical properties and functionalities. These materials, inspired from fish scales take the form of either composite materials or multi-material discrete exoskeleton type structures. Over the last decade, they have been under intense scrutiny for generating tailorable and tunable stiffness, penetration and fracture resistance, buckling prevention, nonlinear damping, hydrodynamic and camouflaging functions. Such programmable behavior emerges from leveraging their unique morphology and structure-property relationships. Several advanced tools of characterization, manufacturing, modeling and computation have been employed to understand and discover their behavior. With the rapid proliferation of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, and advancing envelope of modeling and computational methods, this field is seeing renewed efforts to realize even more ambitious designs. We present a review and recapitulation of the state-of-the art in fish scale inspired materials in this paper.
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- PAR ID:
- 10352697
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
- ISSN:
- 1748-3182
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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