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Bioinspired building materials—lessons from nature

Frontiers in Materials, 2023
Systems found in nature are a valuable source of inspiration for several applications. Scientists and researchers from different fields (structural engineering, robotics, medicine, and materials science) use the concepts of biomimicking, biomimetics, and
Anna Sandak, Anna Sandak, Anna Sandak, Karen Butina Ogorelec, Karen Butina Ogorelec   +4 more
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Marine Spongin: Naturally Prefabricated 3D Scaffold-Based Biomaterial

Marine Drugs, 2018
The biosynthesis, chemistry, structural features and functionality of spongin as a halogenated scleroprotein of keratosan demosponges are still paradigms. This review has the principal goal of providing thorough and comprehensive coverage of spongin as a
Teofil Jesionowski, Małgorzata Norman, Sonia Żółtowska-Aksamitowska, Iaroslav Petrenko, Yvonne Joseph, Hermann Ehrlich   +5 more
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Synthesis of nanostructured chitin–hematite composites under extreme biomimetic conditions

RSC Adv., 2014
Chitin of poriferan origin is a unique and thermostable biological material. It also represents an example of a renewable materials source due to the high regeneration ability of Aplysina sponges under marine ranching conditions. Chitinous scaffolds isolated from the skeleton of the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba were used as a template for the in ...
Wysokowski, Marcin, Motylenko, Mykhailo, Langer, Enrico, Bazhenov, Vasilii V., Szatkowski, Tomasz, Zdarta, Jakub, Pertenko, Iaroslav, Kljajić, Zoran, Leisegang, Tilmann, Molodtsov, Serguei, Meyer, Dirk C., Jesionowski, Teofil, Walter, Juliane, Ehrlich, Hermann, Lota, Grzegorz, Wojciechowski, Jarosław, Stöcker, Hartmut, Galli, Roberta, Stelling, Allison L., Himcinschi, Cameliu, Niederschlag, Elke   +20 more
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Extreme biomimetics: Preservation of molecular detail in centimeter-scale samples of biological meshes laid down by sponges [PDF]

Science Advances, 2019
We report a strategy for preserving the structural features of collagen triple helix in turbostratic graphite.
Petrenko, Iaroslav, Summers, Adam P., Simon, Paul, Zoltowska-Aksamitowska, Sonia, Motylenko, Mykhailo, Schimpf, Christian, Rafaja, David, Roth, Friedrich, Kummer, Kurt, Brendler, Erica, Pokrovsky, Oleg S., Galli, Roberta, Wysokowski, Marcin, Meissner, Heike, Niederschlag, Elke, Joseph, Yvonne, Molodtsov, Serguei, Ereskovsky, Alexander, Sivkov, Viktor, Nekipelov, Sergey, Petrova, Olga, Volkova, Olena, Bertau, Martin, Kraft, Michael, Rogalev, Andrei, Kopani, Martin, Jesioniowski, Teofil, Ehrlich, Hermann   +27 more
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Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Films with an Extremely Low Roll-Off Angle Modified by F16CuPc via Two-Step Fabrication

Nanomaterials, 2022
Superhydrophobicity is the phenomenon of which the water contact angle (WCA) of droplets on a solid surface is greater than 150°. In the present paper, we prepare a superhydrophobic film with a structure similar to the surface of a lotus leaf, which is composed of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), zinc oxide (ZnO), a molecular sieve (MS) and 1,2,3,4,8,9,10 ...
Zhou, Pengchao, Hu, Tengda, Xu, Yachen, Li, Xiang, Shi, Wei, Lin, Yang, Xu, Tao, Wei, Bin   +7 more
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3D Skeletal Scaffolds of Marine Keratosan Demosponges Origin as Renewable Sources for Bioinspiration in Modern Structural Biomimetics and Tissue Engineering

Biomimetics
This experimental review discusses evolutionarily approved, naturally pre-designed skeletal architectures of marine keratosan sponges in the form of 3D scaffolds, which have garnered increasing interest in the fields of structural and functional ...
Hermann Ehrlich, Jagoda Litowczenko, Anna Szczurek, Alona Voronkina, Daria Pakuła, Miłosz Frydrych, Robert E. Przekop, Igor Smirnov, Stanislav Petrov, Ihor Sieliverstov, Martyna Kotula, Anita Kubiak, Bartosz Leśniewski, Izabela Dziedzic, Liubov Muzychka, Hartmut Stöker, Zineb Souiba, Armin Springer, Korbinian Heimler, Carla Vogt, Adelajda Flont, Marta Przymuszała, Dmitry Tsurkan, Krzysztof Nowacki   +23 more
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Novel nanostructured hematite–spongin composite developed using an extreme biomimetic approach

RSC Advances, 2015
The characteristic mineral-free fibrous skeletons (made of structural protein-spongin) of H. communis (Demospongiae: Porifera) was used as a structural template in hydrothermal synthesis of hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3 ...
Szatkowski, Tomasz, Wysokowski, Marcin, Petrenko, Iaroslav, Stelling, Allison L., Jurga, Stefan, Jesionowski, Teofil, Ehrlich, Hermann, Lota, Grzegorz, Pęziak, Daria, Bazhenov, Vasili V., Nowaczyk, Grzegorz, Walter, Juliane, Molodtsov, Serguei, Stöcker, Hartmut, Himcinschi, Cameliu   +14 more
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The Plant Gall as Innovation Booster: A Conceptual Framework

Proceedings
Biomimetics, the field of learning from Nature for applications in science, engineering and the arts, offers pathways toward sustainable innovation and integrative education.
Ille C. Gebeshuber
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Mechanically Mutable Matrices: A Hierarchical Investigation of Decellularized Sea Cucumber Collagen as an Adaptable Scaffold Material

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Sea cucumber mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) is a remarkable collagen‐based material which can rapidly undergo large changes in stiffness through transiently bound effector proteins. Here, we investigate the hierarchical structure and mechanical response of MCT from Cucumaria frondosa across length scales with a wide range of methods, also exploring ...
Nathalie R. H. Singh, Amy K. Lin, Sabra Rostami, Cameron Hastie, Paul W. Wiseman, Patrick Flammang, Christopher Moraes, Matthew J. Harrington   +7 more
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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