Sustainable Bioinspired Functional Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The implementation of innovative functional materials in the modern manufacturing industry plays an important role in sustainability. A central question is how to design and manufacture the novel functionalities or mechanical properties that are beyond the current materials. Nature’s solution to extraordinary durability, sustainability and resilience is countless, and offers many opportunities to engineers and scientists who are interested in the development of new functional materials with unprecedented energy efficient, environmental adaptive and mechanical performance.

This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the recent interdisciplinary work on sustainable bioinspired functional materials. In particular, we welcome papers that focus on the following areas:

1) The fundamental understanding of the design principles in natural materials and/or development of innovative materials for the built environment;

2) The advanced experimental and theoretical analyses of eco-friendly bioinspired functional materials in the modern manufacturing industry (e.g. additive manufacturing) with different applications;

3) The modeling of the mechanical response of sustainable bioinspired functional materials under complex loading conditions (e.g. multiaxial cyclic loading);

4) The monitoring of the effects of climate conditions on bioinspired functional materials with enhanced long-term adaptability and durability.

Dr. Chao Gao
Prof. Dr. Filippo Berto
Prof. Dr. Chiara Bertolin
Dr. Paolo Ferro
Guest Editors

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