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Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations. / Spear, Morwenna.
Designing with natural materials. ed. / Graham Ormondroyd; Angela Morris. CRC Press, 2018. p. 29-110.

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Spear, M 2018, Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations. in G Ormondroyd & A Morris (eds), Designing with natural materials. CRC Press, pp. 29-110.

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Spear, M. (2018). Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations. In G. Ormondroyd, & A. Morris (Eds.), Designing with natural materials (pp. 29-110). CRC Press.

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Spear M. 2018. Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations. Ormondroyd G, Morris A, editors. In Designing with natural materials. CRC Press. pp. 29-110.

MLA

Spear, Morwenna "Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations". and Ormondroyd, Graham Morris, Angela (editors). Designing with natural materials. Chapter 3, CRC Press. 2018, 29-110.

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Spear M. Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations. In Ormondroyd G, Morris A, editors, Designing with natural materials. CRC Press. 2018. p. 29-110

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Spear, Morwenna. / Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations. Designing with natural materials. editor / Graham Ormondroyd ; Angela Morris. CRC Press, 2018. pp. 29-110

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TY - CHAP

T1 - Natural Materials – Composition and Combinations

AU - Spear, Morwenna

PY - 2018/9/25

Y1 - 2018/9/25

N2 - Over recent decades mankind has looked afresh to nature to inspire the materials and technological developments which surround us. The advent of microscopy revealed much about the structure of natural materials, and coupled with advances in modelling and chemical and biological synthetic techniques, the methods for understanding the composition and morphology of natural materials has taken significant leaps forward. This chapter introduces the most significant groups of natural materials – the proteins, polysaccharides, biominerals and others – and a selection of their naturally occurring states in biological organisms. The majority of natural materials are in fact composites, utilising two or more components to achieve the properties required by the organism. Therefore the latter part of the chapter looks at composites based on natural fibres, or biopolymers, to introduce the potential of forming biocomposites based on natural materials.

AB - Over recent decades mankind has looked afresh to nature to inspire the materials and technological developments which surround us. The advent of microscopy revealed much about the structure of natural materials, and coupled with advances in modelling and chemical and biological synthetic techniques, the methods for understanding the composition and morphology of natural materials has taken significant leaps forward. This chapter introduces the most significant groups of natural materials – the proteins, polysaccharides, biominerals and others – and a selection of their naturally occurring states in biological organisms. The majority of natural materials are in fact composites, utilising two or more components to achieve the properties required by the organism. Therefore the latter part of the chapter looks at composites based on natural fibres, or biopolymers, to introduce the potential of forming biocomposites based on natural materials.

KW - Biopolymer

KW - structural proteins

KW - cellulose

KW - biocomposite

KW - biomineralisation

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1138746251

SP - 29

EP - 110

BT - Designing with natural materials

A2 - Ormondroyd, Graham

A2 - Morris, Angela

PB - CRC Press

ER -