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Meeting 2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Symposium Mechanics and Physiological Adaptation of Hard and Soft Biomaterials and Biological Tissues
Presentation Title Sustainable innovation – learning from nature’s grippers and stingers
Author(s) Eduard Arzt, Marc A. Meyers
On-Site Speaker (Planned) Eduard Arzt
Abstract Scope Evolution has evolved fascinating resource-efficient and sustainable materials architectures to ensure survival. Inspired by nature, micropatterning of polymeric materials has become a powerful paradigm for controlling adhesion or for optimizing penetrative objects. For adhesion, fundamental studies have demonstrated the benefit of microfibrillar architectures over non-structured contacts, inspiring innovative pick-and-place systems. But several problems remain: how do we release micro-objects with negligible mass? And how can we ensure reliability of gripping, also in demanding conditions such as in space? We have proposed a machine-learning based optical monitoring system that images the individual fibrillar contacts in operando and predicts successful handling with high accuracy, indicating, even for incomplete or off-center gripping. Similar microstructures have been engineered into delicate adhesives for skin and body organs. Further examples of bioinspiration for optimized stinger ‘design’ in nature will be presented.
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Keywords Biomaterials, Sustainability, Mechanical Properties

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Advances in Bone Research – 60 Years of Progress
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Development of novel mechanochemically active hydrogels
Dynamically-Driven Osteoblast Attachment and Stress Fiber Formation on 4D Nanoarchitected Scaffold-on-Chip
Effects of Zinc Deficiency and Arsenic Co-Exposure on Bone in Growing Female Mice
Experimental Model of a Pore as a Valve Mechanism
Exploring the Effects of Disease on Teeth: Mouse Models of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Impact of heavy alcohol consumption on cortical bone mechanical properties in male rhesus macaques
Impact of Type 2 Diabetes on the Lacunar Canalicular Network in Cortical Bone: A Connectomic Analysis
Insights to Enhance Toughness of Human Bone through Nanoscale Deformation and Fracture Analysis
Investigations on Mechanical Properties and Multi-functionalities of 3D-printed, Denticle-like Composites Inspired by the Skin of Slow-swimming Catshark
Multi-scale adaptation of bone in health and disease
Multi-scale fracture resistance of young brittle bones treated with bisphosphonates
Sustainable innovation – learning from nature’s grippers and stingers
The hierarchical design of the echinoid skeletal structure: structural, compositional and crystallographic variability in relation to the regional micromechanical function
The Osteoinductive Capacity of Demineralized Allogenic Bone Matrix Is Impaired By Chronic Heavy Alcohol Consumption
Understanding Self-Sharpening Mechanism of Sea Urchin Tooth via Nanostructural and Nanomechanical Mapping
Understanding the impact physiologically relevant stressors on the structure and properties of fungi
Zone-Specific Flocking of Zinc and Sulfur in the Temporomandibular Joint

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