Self-shaping composites with programmable bioinspired microstructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Erb, Randall M ^a,b   Sander, Jonathan S ^a   Grisch, Roman ^a   Studart, André R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; POLYMER;

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CELLULOSE; CLIMBING PLANT; COMPOSITE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FIBER; MAGNETIC FIELD; PREDICTION; PROGRAMMABLE SHAPE CHANGE; SYNTHESIS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; PINUS; POLYMERS; SEEDS;

EID: 84877764387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2666     Document Type: Article

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