Recent progress of abrasion-resistant materials: learning from nature.
Abrasion-resistant materials have attracted great attention for their broad applications in industry, biomedicine and military. However, the development of abrasion-resistant materials that have with unique features such as being lightweight and flexible remains a great challenge in order to satisfy unmet demands. The outstanding performance of natural abrasion-resistant materials motivates the development of new bio-inspired abrasion-resistant materials. This review summarizes the recent progress in the investigation of natural abrasion-resistant materials to explore their general design principles (i.e., the correlation between chemical components and structural features). Following natural design principles, several artificial abrasion-resistant materials have shown unique abrasion-resistant properties. The potential challenges in the future and possible solutions for designing bio-inspired abrasion-resistant materials are also briefly discussed.
Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. stwang@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
Jingxin
J
Meng
Pengchao
P
Zhang
Shutao
S
Wang
D040761:Biomimetic Materials / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D017276:Friction; D010316:Particle Size; D013499:Surface Properties