![]() However, the mechanical performance of natural wood (its strength and toughness) is unsatisfactory for many advanced engineering structures and applications. ![]() Natural wood is a low-cost and abundant material and has been used for millennia as a structural material for building and furniture construction 9. Synthetic structural materials with exceptional mechanical performance suffer from either large weight and adverse environmental impact (for example, steels and alloys) or complex manufacturing processes and thus high cost (for example, polymer-based and biomimetic composites) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
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