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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2020

Spiral Honeycomb Microstructured Bacterial Cellulose for Increased Strength and Toughness.

Kui Yu, Srikkanth Balasubramanian, Helda Pahlavani, Mohammad J Mirzaali, Amir A Zadpoor, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Artificial Symbiosis for Bulk Production of Bacterial Cellulose Composites.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  2. Bacterial Cellulose Production by a NovelFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  5. A Review on Bioinks and their Application in Plant Bioprinting.International journal of bioprinting · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kui YuDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.
Srikkanth BalasubramanianDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.
Helda PahlavaniDepartment of Biomechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.
Mohammad J MirzaaliDepartment of Biomechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.
Amir A ZadpoorDepartment of Biomechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3234-2112
Marie-Eve Aubin-TamDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-2623

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural materials, such as nacre and silk, exhibit both high strength and toughness due to their hierarchical structures highly organized at the nano-, micro-, and macroscales. Bacterial cellulose (BC) presents a hierarchical fibril structure at the nanoscale. At the microscale, however, BC nanofibers are distributed randomly. Here, BC self-assembles into a highly organized spiral honeycomb microstructure giving rise to a high tensile strength (315 MPa) and a high toughness value (17.8 MJ m

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Biomimetic MaterialsCelluloseHypocrealesMaterials TestingParticle SizeSurface PropertiesTensile StrengthCellulosebiocompositesbio-inspired materialscellular materialsself-assemblysustainability

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PMID33112612
PMCPMC7662910

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