Richard Weinkamer

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic principles involved in designing hierarchical biological materials, such as cellular and composite architectures, adapative growth and as well as remodeling, are discussed, and examples that are found to utilize these strategies include wood, bone, tendon, and glass sponges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors visualize and topologically quantify the osteocyte network in mineralized bone sections with confocal laser scanning microscopy, and use this information to determine nanoscopic bone mineral particle size and arrangement relative to the cell network.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize experimental developments in this field as well as theoretical background of capsule deformation with special attention to small deformation measurements, and introduce polyelectrolyte multilayer capsules as a case study, since they can be tailored in their geometry and composition and are thus well suited as a model system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a structural hierarchy of biomolecular structures, spanning many length scales, arising from the assembly of different sized building blocks during growth, which can increase resistance to fracture, join materials of different character, make them deform more easily and provide motility.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the shape of the BMDD histogram of trabecular bone reflects directly the mineralization kinetics, and the described theoretical framework opens new possibilities for an analysis of experimentally measured BMDDs with respect to changes caused by diseases or treatments.