Bioinspired Structural Materials for Energy Applications
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomimetics of Materials and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 46
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature has long served as a source of inspiration for materials science, offering efficient, resilient, and multifunctional designs that can be applied to modern technological challenges. In the pursuit of sustainable and high-performance materials for energy applications, bioinspired structural materials have emerged as a promising solution. By mimicking the hierarchical, lightweight, and adaptive structures found in biological systems, these materials can significantly enhance energy storage, conversion, and harvesting processes.
For this Special Issue on ‘Bioinspired Structural Materials for Energy Applications’, we invite original contributions focusing on the design, fabrication, and application of bioinspired structural materials for energy-related technologies. We welcome interdisciplinary research approaches combining biology, materials science, and engineering to design sustainable and high-performance materials with energy functionality. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, bioinspired composites, nanostructured materials, biomimetic designs for batteries, thermal energy storage, supercapacitors, and solar cells, energy absorption and dissipation, bioinspired catalysts for energy conversion, biomimetic piezoelectric and triboelectric materials, and sustainable materials for energy harvesting.
We encourage submissions that present experimental, computational, and theoretical studies demonstrating the advantages of bioinspired strategies in improving the efficiency, sustainability, and durability of energy systems.
Dr. Ruizhe Yang
Dr. Chengyao Liang
Dr. Fengyin Du
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioinspired materials/catalysts
- biomimetic design
- structural energy storage
- lightweight composites
- nanostructured materials
- energy harvesting
- sustainable energy materials
- renewable energy technologies
- energy absorption and dissipation
- 3D-printed bioinspired structures
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