bioinspired nanocomposites | walther-lab 3/4

This page lists most of our publications starting from 2014.

Total: ca. 200 Publications

Please refer to Google Scholar for a complete list.

Light-Adaptive Supramolecular Nacre-Mimetic Nanocomposites

Get the full paper here: Nano Letters 16, 5167 (2016); (Highlighted in SCIENCE; 353, 787, 2016). Nature provides design paradigms for...

Understanding Toughness in Bioinspired Cellulose Nanofibril/Polymer Nanocomposites

Get the full paper here: Biomacromolecules, 17, 2417, (2016). Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are considered next generation, renewable...

Biomineralization of Engineered Spider Silk Protein-Based Composite Materials for Bone Tissue Engine

Get the full paper here: Materials, 9, 560, (2016). Materials based on biodegradable polyesters, such as poly(butylene terephthalate)...

Bioinspired Mechanical Gradients in Cellulose Nanofibril/Polymer Nanopapers

Get the full paper here: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 1521 (2016). Mechanical gradients are important as tough joints, for strain field...

Self-Assembled, Iridescent, Crustacean-Mimetic Nanocomposites with Tailored Periodicity and Layered

Get the full paper here: ACS Nano, 9, 10637 (2015). Natural high-performance materials inspire the pursuit of ordered hard/soft...

Conducting, Self-Assembled, Nacre-Mimetic Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites

Get the full paper here: ACS Appl. Mat. Inter. 7, 15681 (2015) We demonstrate electrically and ionically conducting nacre-mimetic...

Hierarchical Nacre-Mimetics with Synergistic Mechanical Properties by Control of Molecular Interacti

Get the full article here: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 8653 (2015). Designing the reversible interactions of biopolymers remains a grand...

Nacre-Mimetics with Synthetic Nanoclays up to Ultrahigh Aspect Ratio

Get the full paper here: Nat. Commun. 6, 5967 (2015). Nacre-mimetics hold great promise as mechanical high-performance and functional...

Aligned Bioinspired Cellulose Nanocrystal-Based Nanocomposites with Synergetic Mechanical Properties

Get the full paper here: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 7, 4595 (2015). Natural high-performance materials inspire the pursuit of ordered...

Mechanical Performance of Macrofibers of Cellulose and Chitin Nanofibrils Aligned by Wet-Stretching:

Get the full paper here: Biomacromolecules, 15, 2709, (2014). Renewable nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) and nanofibrillated chitin (NFCh)...