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SUBMITTER: Martin JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4639893 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20151023
Discontinuous fibre composites represent a class of materials that are strong, lightweight and have remarkable fracture toughness. These advantages partially explain the abundance and variety of discontinuous fibre composites that have evolved in the natural world. Many natural structures out-perform the conventional synthetic counterparts due, in part, to the more elaborate reinforcement architectures that occur in natural composites. Here we present an additive manufacturing approach that comb ...[more]