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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: MRS Bull. 2013 Feb;38(2):169–176. doi: 10.1557/mrs.2013.26

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Common principles of biological and bioinspired material design. (a), Merger of ‘structure’ and ‘material’ across different length scales in hierarchical materials. (b), Different hierarchical systems feature common principles by which function emerges, which can be demonstrated by the application of category theory. Musical scores on the right based on a translation from designer silk sequence reported in [5].