Bioinspired Materials: (Adv. Mater. 19/2018)

Bioinspiration is a powerful concept to develop novel functional materials. This Special Issue, edited by Silvia Vignolini and Nico Bruns, presents bioinspired materials across all length scales, such as wood-based water-purification systems, mussel-protein-inspired glues, diatoms that encapsulate drugs, fiber-reinforced composites that indicate damage by bleeding, helical cellulose nanocrystals for optical applications, pigments and coatings that mimic the structural color of insects and plants, architecture inspired by the moving parts of plants, and many more.