The inner architecture of a material can have an astonishing effect on its overall properties and is vital to understand when designing new materials. Nature is a master at designing hierarchical structures and so researchers are looking at biological examples for inspiration, specifically to understand how nature arranges the inner architectures for a particular function in order to apply these design principles into man-made materials.

Architectured Materials: An Alternative to Microstructure Control for Structural Materials Design? A Possible Playground for Bio-inspiration?; Bone Structural Adaptation and Wolff's Law; Understanding Hierarchy and Functions of Bone Using Scanning X-ray Scattering Methods; Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy to Explore Early Stages of Bio(mimetic)mineralization; Collagen-based Materials for Tissue Repair, from Bio-inspired to Bio-mimetic; Materials Design Inspired by Tree and Wood Architecture; Raman Microscopy: Insights into the Chemistry and Structure of Biological Materials; The Mineralized Crustacean Cuticle: Hierarchical Structure and Mechanical Properties; Multi-scale Modelling of a Biological Material: The Arthropod Exoskeleton; Optical Biomimetics; Magnetic Nanoparticles in Bacteria; Hierarchical Protein Assemblies as a Basis for Materials; Anti-adhesive Surfaces in Plants and Their Biomimetic Potential; Bio-inspired Adhesive Surfaces: From Principles to Applications; Replicating Biological Design Principles in Synthetic Composites; Bio-inspired Self-healing Materials;