Fig. 1: Bioinspired architectures of 3-D printed Ti-6Al-4V scaffolds and their infiltrated Mg-Ti composites. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Bioinspired architectures of 3-D printed Ti-6Al-4V scaffolds and their infiltrated Mg-Ti composites.

From: On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures

Fig. 1

The structures of representative biological prototypes in Nature, respectively the shell of abalone H. rufescens36, the dactyl club of mantis shrimp O. scyllarus38, and the shell of bivalve mollusk S. purpuratus40 for the (a) brick-and-mortar, b Bouligand, and c crossed-lamellar architectures, are also presented for comparison. The architectures of the scaffolds are manifested using the 3-D XRT micrographs of the composites by filtering out the signals of Mg. The micrographs for the structures of biological materials are adapted with permission from refs. 36,38,40. Panel a adapted (with permission) from ref. 36. Panel b adapted (with permission) from ref. 38. Panel c adapted (with permission) from ref. 40.

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