About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2027 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Biological Materials Science
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| Presentation Title |
Microstructural Evolution in Honeycomb by Time-Resolved X-Ray Microscopy |
| Author(s) |
Nikhilesh Chawla |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Nikhilesh Chawla |
| Abstract Scope |
Biological systems in nature have evolved over millions of years to adapt to environmental and ecological challenges. Nature seeks to leverage available materials with an emphasis on hierarchy and local control of microstructure to meet functional needs using the least amount of material. As such, biological systems incorporate intelligent, unique, and complex structural design concepts. Where general principles have been identified across several organisms, these have not been translated into engineered materials with similar generality.
In this talk, I will describe microstructural evolution in combs made by honeybees (apis mellifera). In order to understand the structure of these materials, a correlative microscopy-based approach was used, based on time-evolved lab scale x-ray microscopy (microtomography), to investigate the hierarchical microstructure at multiple length scales and to extract key structural parameters. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Characterization, Additive Manufacturing, Biomaterials |