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Université de Fribourg

Biomimetic mechanically adaptive nanocomposites

Shanmuganathan, Kadhiravan ; Capadona, Jeffrey R. ; Rowan, Stuart J. ; Weder, Christoph

In: Progress in Polymer Science, 2010, vol. 35, no. 1-2, p. 212–222

The development of a new class of mechanically adaptive nanocomposites has been inspired by biological creatures such as sea cucumbers, which have the ability to reversibly change the stiffness of their dermis. Several recent studies have related this dynamic mechanical behaviour to the distinctive nanocomposite architecture of the collagenous tissue, in which interactions among rigid collagen...