Materials use by design

Biological materials by design.

In this topical review we discuss recent advances in the use of physical insight into the way biological materials function, to design novel engineered materials 'from scratch', or from the level of fundamental building blocks upwards and by using computational multiscale methods that link chemistry to material function. We present studies that connect advances in multiscale hierarchical materi...

MEDICAL USE OF CERAMIC MATERIALS

Advanced Computational Techniques for Materials-by-design

Modeling of uncertainty propagation in multi-scale models of deformation is extremely complex considering the nonlinear coupled phenomena that need to be accounted for. The ongoing work addresses key mathematical and computational issues related to robust control of deformation processes. Our research accomplishments for this year include development of new mathematical models based on spectral...

Materials by Design: Merging Proteins and Music.

Tailored materials with tunable properties are crucial for applications as biomaterials, for drug delivery, as functional coatings, or as lightweight composites. An emerging paradigm in designing such materials is the construction of hierarchical assemblies of simple building blocks into complex architectures with superior properties. We review this approach in a case study of silk, a genetical...

Design and Production of Two-Piece Thyroid-Neck Phantom by the Concurrent Use of Epoxy Resin and Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Soft Tissue Equivalent Materials

The aim of this report is to present a new two-piece thyroid-neck phantom produced by the concurrent use of epoxy resin and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA: plexiglass) soft tissue equivalent materials. Accordingly, mass attenuation coefficients of the epoxy resin and the plexiglass compounds were obtained from simulation (NIST XCOM 3.1) and measurements (practical dosimetry) and compared to th...