Wood and the Activity of Dead Tissue

Overview

Journal Adv Mater

Date 2020 Aug 5

PMID 32748985

Citations 6

Authors

Michaela Eder

Wolfgang Schaffner

Ingo Burgert

Peter Fratzl

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Abstract

Wood is a prototypical biological material, which adapts to mechanical requirements. The microarchitecture of cellulose fibrils determines the mechanical properties of woody materials, as well as their actuation properties, based on absorption and desorption of water. Herein it is argued that cellulose fiber orientation corresponds to an analog code that determines the response of wood to humidity as an active material. Examples for the harvesting of wood activity, as well as bioinspiration, are given.

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