Post on 27-Jan-2021
Biological Materials and Biomimicry
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Prof. Ed Palermo Materials Science & Engineering
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“Materials, of themselves, affect us little. It is how we use them which influences our lives”
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- Epictetus (AD 50-100) Discourses, book 2, chap 5
One of the earliest tools, a chopper ~2 M years old, from the Olduvai Gorge
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Bronze Age (3500-1400 BC)
Materials Define Civilizations Stone Age Copper Age (5000-3200 BC)
Iron Age (1400-500 BC)
Metals Changed Humanity Forever
Smelting refers to melting processes that separate metals in fused form from nonmetallic materials. 5
(1350–1322 BC)
Iron age and the Hittite Empire
Plastics Age (1980s) Silicon Age (2000s)
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Who Defeated the Mongolian Empire?
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Yersina Pestis
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Bronze Age (3500-1400 BC)
Materials Define Civilizations Stone Age Copper Age (5000-3200 BC)
Iron Age (1400-500 BC)
What “age” is it today?
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The Silicon Age?
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The Carbon Age?
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What “age” will it be in 100 years?
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Silicon Forever?
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0.2 nm
DNA for data storage?
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DNA Origami
Hydrocarbons Forever?
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The Everything Age.
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What’s in a Material?
Metal Ceramic Polymer Glass
Why do their properties differ so much? just one word: structure
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Classification of Metals
simple crystal
structures
Classification of Ceramics Al2O3
ZnO
WC
ZrO2 SiC BaTiO3
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Classification of Glasses
“window glass”
SiO2 Na2O CaO MgO Al2O3
SiO2 B2O3 Na2O Al2O3
“borosilicate glass”
“lead oxide glass”
SiO2 PbO K2O Na2O ZnO Al2O3
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Classification of Polymers
polyethylene
polystyrene
poly(methyl methacrylate)
“Yourmaterialsarewhatrealmaterialscomewrappedin.”
Anonymous Metallurgist, 2014
Metallurgists’ View of Polymer Science
A Brief History of Polymer Science
Polysaccharides DNA
Protein
Who made the first polymer ever?
A Brief History of Polymer Science Using Natural Polymers: Vulcanized Rubber, 1844
A Brief History of Polymer Science Wallace Carothers: Nylon, 1937
Plastic Waste
Ocean Waste – Serious Problem
poly(styrene), PS
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“Polystyrene foam is a plague on the environment” - NYT Editorial Board
$1.00-1.03 /lb
$0.90-1.00 /lb
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poly(lactic acid) PLA
High polymer prices make PLA an attractive alternative - NatureWorks
Marc Hillmyer “There Is a Great Future in Sustainable Polymers” Macromolecules 2017
Biological Materials
Water Polymers Ceramics
Composites
• calcium phosphates • silicates and carbonates
• proteins • polysaccharides
C and H with N, O, P, S
Ca, Si, Na, P, O, C
(very few native metals… why?)
Gases N2, O2, CO2
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spider silk
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spider silk
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Materials Science & Engineering
Physics Chemistry Biology
MechE Civil BME Aero
BiomedicalEngineering
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BiologicalMaterials
Biomimicry We Have Always Envied
Nature’s Design Principles
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Nature’s Design Principles
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(a) 15th century merchant ship (b) cross-linked filaments in a nerve cell
from Boal, “Mechanics of the Cell” (2002) Cambridge UK
Nature’s Design Principles
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(a) a hot-air balloon (b) network of spectrin fibers in human red blood cell membrane
from Boal, “Mechanics of the Cell” (2002) Cambridge UK
Nature’s Design Principles
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(a) map of Ghent, Belgium (1500s) (b) microtubules in a fibroblast
from Boal, “Mechanics of the Cell” (2002) Cambridge UK
Nature’s Design Principles
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(a) Tile pattern from a mosque, 1086 AD (b) Zeolite structure, 1976
from Smart and Moore, “Solid State Chemistry” (2005) Taylor & Francis: NY
FunctionalBiologicalMaterials
Serveapurposeotherthanpurelymechanical
Interlocking Velcro: Classic Biomimicry
“Biomimetic” NanoMaterials
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Gecko Feet Adhesion
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MimicryofGeckoFeet
Spider Silk
SpiderSilkisstrongerthanSteel??Bondtype Bondstrength(kJ/mol)Metallic ~100-900C-Ccovalentbond ~300amideH-bonding ~10
vs.
“…perhaps the confinement of hydrogen bonds into nanoscale elements is a universal biological
design paradigm that turns weakness to strength.”
Polymersarewhatreal
materialscomewrappedin.
Anonymous Metallurgist, 2014
Yourrustyoldmetalsareagoodplaceformycoolwebs. Anonymous
Spider, 2018
Super-hydrophobic Surfaces
SyntheticSuperomniphobicity
hyperbranched ZnO nanowire (NW) structures DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06463
Anish Tuteja and co-workers, ACS Nano 2017, 11, 478−489
Abalone(H.rufescens)
Abalone shell (Nacre)
Jackson AP, Vincent JFV, Turner RM. Proc Roy Soc London B 1988;B234:415 Meyers MA, Lin AYM, Chen PY, Muyco J. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2008;1:76-85.
Abalone shell (Nacre)
Asp-rich protein
Biomimicryofabalone
Biomimicryofabalone
• Hexagonal plates of SiC or B4C • Kevlar/thermoset laminate • Connected by Velcro
Nature’sIngeniousDesignPrinciples
BothofthesematerialsaremadeofCaCO3
540 MPa in compression! Basically useless in compression!
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BiomimicryistheFutureofMSE!