Nature Materials

, volume 14 , issue 1 , pages 23-36

Bioinspired structural materials

Ulrike G. K. Wegst ¹

Hao Bai ²

Eduardo Saiz ³

Antoni P Tomsia ²

Robert O. Ritchie ^{2, 4}

Hide authors affiliations Show authors affiliations: 4 affiliations

Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA |

Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA |

Department of Materials, Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics, Imperial College London, UK |

⁴

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2014-10-26

Springer Nature

Nature Materials

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR: 14.204

CiteScore: 61.8

Impact factor: 38.5

ISSN: 14761122, 14764660

DOI: 10.1038/nmat4089

Copy DOI

PubMed ID: 25344782

General Chemistry

Condensed Matter Physics

General Materials Science

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanics of Materials

Abstract

This Review discusses the common structural motifs of a range of natural materials and the difficulties associated with mimicking these designs in the fabrication of synthetic structures with enhanced mechanical properties. Natural structural materials are built at ambient temperature from a fairly limited selection of components. They usually comprise hard and soft phases arranged in complex hierarchical architectures, with characteristic dimensions spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale. The resulting materials are lightweight and often display unique combinations of strength and toughness, but have proven difficult to mimic synthetically. Here, we review the common design motifs of a range of natural structural materials, and discuss the difficulties associated with the design and fabrication of synthetic structures that mimic the structural and mechanical characteristics of their natural counterparts.

Found

1 citation

Baranchikov Alexander

PhD in Chemistry

400 publications, 5 225 citations, 274 reviews

h-index: 32

Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research interests

Hydrothermal synthesis

Inorganic Chemistry

Low-temperature nitrogen adsorption

Rare-earth elements

Scanning electron microscopy

X-ray diffraction (XRD)

1 citation

Krylov Alexander

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, associate professor

247 publications, 3 373 citations, 365 reviews

h-index: 28

Kirensky Institute of Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research interests

High pressures

Metal-organic frameworks

Multiferroics

Perovskites

Raman spectroscopy

1 citation

Kaplan Mikhail

PhD in Engineering

93 publications, 379 citations

h-index: 11

A.A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1 citation

Konushkin Sergey

PhD in Engineering

72 publications, 331 citations

h-index: 9

A.A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research interests

"Smart" materials

Materials Science

1 citation

Dutta Saikat

110 publications, 8 137 citations, 82 reviews

h-index: 41

Amity University, Noida

1 citation

Gunderov Dmitriy

🥼

198 publications, 3 593 citations

h-index: 31

Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ufa University of Science and Technology

Research interests

Amorphous alloys

1 citation

Murashkin Maxim

PhD in Engineering

149 publications, 6 422 citations, 2 reviews

h-index: 40

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Saint Petersburg State University

Ufa University of Science and Technology

1 citation

Bobruk Elena

PhD in Engineering, associate professor

50 publications, 1 176 citations

h-index: 16

Saint Petersburg State University

Ufa University of Science and Technology

Research interests

Metallurgy

1 citation

Sevostyanov Mihail

160 publications, 958 citations, 5 reviews

h-index: 16

A.A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1 citation

Peshkov Yaroslav

PhD in Physics and Mathematics

27 publications, 53 citations

h-index: 4

Voronezh State University

1 citation

Asfandiyarov Rashid

PhD in Engineering

39 publications, 308 citations

h-index: 7

Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ufa University of Science and Technology

1 citation

Júlio José

🤝

DSc in Chemistry, associate professor, professor of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

6 publications, 54 citations

h-index: 2

Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo

Research interests

Inorganic Chemistry

Materials Science

1 citation

Zumer Slobodan

307 publications, 11 986 citations, 22 reviews

h-index: 54

University of Ljubljana

Jožef Stefan Institute

1 citation

Mogas-Soldevila Laia

15 publications, 323 citations, 1 review

h-index: 7

University of Pennsylvania

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research interests

Architecture

Biomaterials

1 citation

Capehart William

10 publications, 58 citations, 3 reviews

h-index: 4

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Research interests

Hydrology

Meteorology

Numerical weather prediction

1 citation

Qiaoling Huang

40 publications, 1 236 citations, 20 reviews

h-index: 19

Xiamen University

1 citation

Gupta Nidhi

15 publications, 421 citations

h-index: 11

1 citation

AHMED AYMAN

181 publications, 7 284 citations

h-index: 38

King Saud University

1 citation

KURAMOTO Shigeru

115 publications, 4 231 citations, 20 reviews

h-index: 34

1 citation

Li Yaning

28 publications, 499 citations

h-index: 9

Northeastern University

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Inner Mongolia University

Dalian University of Technology

Top-30

Journals

	20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
Advanced Materials	Advanced Materials, 151, 3.76% Advanced Materials 151 publications, 3.76%
Advanced Functional Materials	Advanced Functional Materials, 127, 3.16% Advanced Functional Materials 127 publications, 3.16%
ACS applied materials & interfaces	ACS applied materials & interfaces, 97, 2.41% ACS applied materials & interfaces 97 publications, 2.41%
ACS Nano	ACS Nano, 83, 2.07% ACS Nano 83 publications, 2.07%
Nature Communications	Nature Communications, 73, 1.82% Nature Communications 73 publications, 1.82%
Scientific Reports	Scientific Reports, 62, 1.54% Scientific Reports 62 publications, 1.54%
Composites Part B: Engineering	Composites Part B: Engineering, 58, 1.44% Composites Part B: Engineering 58 publications, 1.44%
Materials and Design	Materials and Design, 56, 1.39% Materials and Design 56 publications, 1.39%
Small	Small, 53, 1.32% Small 53 publications, 1.32%
Chemical Engineering Journal	Chemical Engineering Journal, 51, 1.27% Chemical Engineering Journal 51 publications, 1.27%
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials	Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 49, 1.22% Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 49 publications, 1.22%
Composites Science and Technology	Composites Science and Technology, 48, 1.19% Composites Science and Technology 48 publications, 1.19%
Advanced Engineering Materials	Advanced Engineering Materials, 43, 1.07% Advanced Engineering Materials 43 publications, 1.07%
Advanced Science	Advanced Science, 40, 1% Advanced Science 40 publications, 1%
Nanoscale	Nanoscale, 36, 0.9% Nanoscale 36 publications, 0.9%
Ceramics International	Ceramics International, 35, 0.87% Ceramics International 35 publications, 0.87%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 34, 0.85% Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 34 publications, 0.85%
Acta Biomaterialia	Acta Biomaterialia, 33, 0.82% Acta Biomaterialia 33 publications, 0.82%
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 32, 0.8% Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 32 publications, 0.8%
Angewandte Chemie	Angewandte Chemie, 32, 0.8% Angewandte Chemie 32 publications, 0.8%
Materials	Materials, 31, 0.77% Materials 31 publications, 0.77%
Matter	Matter, 31, 0.77% Matter 31 publications, 0.77%
Composite Structures	Composite Structures, 30, 0.75% Composite Structures 30 publications, 0.75%
Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing	Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 29, 0.72% Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing 29 publications, 0.72%
Additive Manufacturing	Additive Manufacturing, 29, 0.72% Additive Manufacturing 29 publications, 0.72%
Science advances	Science advances, 28, 0.7% Science advances 28 publications, 0.7%
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 28, 0.7% Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 28 publications, 0.7%
Journal of the American Ceramic Society	Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 28, 0.7% Journal of the American Ceramic Society 28 publications, 0.7%
Carbon	Carbon, 27, 0.67% Carbon 27 publications, 0.67%
	20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

Publishers

	200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Elsevier	Elsevier, 1390, 34.59% Elsevier 1390 publications, 34.59%
Wiley	Wiley, 768, 19.11% Wiley 768 publications, 19.11%
American Chemical Society (ACS)	American Chemical Society (ACS), 453, 11.27% American Chemical Society (ACS) 453 publications, 11.27%
Springer Nature	Springer Nature, 453, 11.27% Springer Nature 453 publications, 11.27%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 238, 5.92% Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 238 publications, 5.92%
MDPI	MDPI, 158, 3.93% MDPI 158 publications, 3.93%
IOP Publishing	IOP Publishing, 70, 1.74% IOP Publishing 70 publications, 1.74%
Taylor & Francis	Taylor & Francis, 61, 1.52% Taylor & Francis 61 publications, 1.52%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)	American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 37, 0.92% American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 37 publications, 0.92%
Frontiers Media S.A.	Frontiers Media S.A., 36, 0.9% Frontiers Media S.A. 36 publications, 0.9%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 34, 0.85% Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 34 publications, 0.85%
Cambridge University Press	Cambridge University Press, 21, 0.52% Cambridge University Press 21 publications, 0.52%
The Royal Society	The Royal Society, 21, 0.52% The Royal Society 21 publications, 0.52%
ASME International	ASME International, 19, 0.47% ASME International 19 publications, 0.47%
Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press, 18, 0.45% Oxford University Press 18 publications, 0.45%
SAGE	SAGE, 17, 0.42% SAGE 17 publications, 0.42%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 17, 0.42% Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 17 publications, 0.42%
AIP Publishing	AIP Publishing, 16, 0.4% AIP Publishing 16 publications, 0.4%
American Physical Society (APS)	American Physical Society (APS), 10, 0.25% American Physical Society (APS) 10 publications, 0.25%
Tsinghua University Press	Tsinghua University Press, 10, 0.25% Tsinghua University Press 10 publications, 0.25%
Emerald	Emerald, 7, 0.17% Emerald 7 publications, 0.17%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 7, 0.17% Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 7 publications, 0.17%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)	American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 6, 0.15% American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 6 publications, 0.15%
IntechOpen	IntechOpen, 6, 0.15% IntechOpen 6 publications, 0.15%
OAE Publishing Inc.	OAE Publishing Inc., 6, 0.15% OAE Publishing Inc. 6 publications, 0.15%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng	SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng, 5, 0.12% SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 5 publications, 0.12%
Hindawi Limited	Hindawi Limited, 5, 0.12% Hindawi Limited 5 publications, 0.12%
Annual Reviews	Annual Reviews, 5, 0.12% Annual Reviews 5 publications, 0.12%
Thomas Telford	Thomas Telford, 4, 0.1% Thomas Telford 4 publications, 0.1%
	200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400

We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
Statistics recalculated weekly.

Are you a researcher?

Create a profile to get free access to personal recommendations for colleagues and new articles.

Metrics

Cite this

GOST |

Cite this

GOST Copy

Wegst U. G. K. et al. Bioinspired structural materials // Nature Materials. 2014. Vol. 14. No. 1. pp. 23-36.

GOST all authors (up to 50) Copy

Wegst U. G. K., Bai H., Saiz E., Tomsia A. P., Ritchie R. O. Bioinspired structural materials // Nature Materials. 2014. Vol. 14. No. 1. pp. 23-36.

RIS |

Cite this

RIS Copy

TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1038/nmat4089

UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4089

TI - Bioinspired structural materials

T2 - Nature Materials

AU - Wegst, Ulrike G. K.

AU - Bai, Hao

AU - Saiz, Eduardo

AU - Tomsia, Antoni P

AU - Ritchie, Robert O.

PY - 2014

DA - 2014/10/26

PB - Springer Nature

SP - 23-36

IS - 1

VL - 14

PMID - 25344782

SN - 1476-1122

SN - 1476-4660

ER -

BibTex |

Cite this

BibTex (up to 50 authors) Copy

@article{2014_Wegst,

author = {Ulrike G. K. Wegst and Hao Bai and Eduardo Saiz and Antoni P Tomsia and Robert O. Ritchie},

title = {Bioinspired structural materials},

journal = {Nature Materials},

year = {2014},

volume = {14},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {oct},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4089},

number = {1},

pages = {23--36},

doi = {10.1038/nmat4089}

}

MLA

Cite this

MLA Copy

Wegst, Ulrike G. K., et al. “Bioinspired structural materials.” Nature Materials, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2014, pp. 23-36. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4089.

Publisher

Springer Nature

Journal

Nature Materials

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

14.204

CiteScore

61.8

Impact factor

38.5

ISSN

14761122 (Print)

14764660 (Electronic)