仿生材料是指模仿生物的各種特點或特性而研製開發的人工合成材料。受自然界中各種性能優異的生物材料的啟發🚹，本課題組致力於仿生礦化、仿生皮膚🏀、仿生黏附和肌肉仿生等領域的研究工作，試圖開發出足以媲美甚至超越生物材料性能的新材料。

比如🗯，我們模仿透明蝦殼的結構組成(無定型碳酸鈣+幾丁質+蛋白質)👂🏻，利用聚丙烯酸交聯極小的無定型碳酸鈣納米粒子，製備出了一類新型的具有可塑性、可自修復性⚉、可拉伸性的礦物水凝膠。該水凝膠幹燥後形成連續透明的堅硬塊體材料，而將之浸入水中🧔🏻‍♂️🤘🏼，又可恢復至水凝膠的狀態🔩。因其具有類似傳統塑料的可反復加工的性質⚅，這一材料又被我們稱為“礦物塑料”(Mineral Plastics)[1]。

我們進一步調節該礦物水凝膠的粘彈性🍈，並利用其離子傳導特性，將此礦物水凝膠應用於仿生離子皮膚的構築，獲得了可自修復並自適應物體表面形狀的高靈敏人工皮膚[2]。

代表性論文

1. Shengtong Sun, Li-Bo Mao, Zhouyue Lei, Shu-Hong Yu, and Helmut Cölfen*. Hydrogels from Amorphous Calcium Carbonate and Polyacrylic Acid: Bio-Inspired Materials for “Mineral Plastics”.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11765-11769. (Highlighted by Giulia Pacchioni. Hydrogels: Mineral Shapeshifters.Nat. Rev. Mater.2016, 1, 16062.

2. Zhouyue Lei, and Peiyi Wu*. A Supramolecular Biomimetic Skin Combining a Wide Spectrum of Mechanical Properties and Multiple Sensory Capabilities. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 1134.

3. Zhouyue Lei, Quankang Wang, Shengtong Sun, Wencheng Zhu, and Peiyi Wu*. A Bioinspired Mineral Hydrogel as a Self-Healable, Mechanically Adaptable Ionic Skin for Highly Sensitive Pressure Sensing.Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, 1700321.

4. Shengtong Sun, Denis Gebauer*, and Helmut Cölfen*. Alignment of Amorphous Iron Oxide Clusters: A Non-Classical Mechanism for Magnetite Formation.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 4042-4046.

5. Shengtong Sun, Daniel M. Chevrier, Peng Zhang, Denis Gebauer*, and Helmut Cölfen*. Distinct Short-Range Order Is Inherent to Small Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Clusters (<2 nm).Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12206-12209.

6. Zhouyue Lei, Quankang Wang, and Peiyi Wu*. A Multifunctional Skin-Like Sensor Based on a Printable and Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel.Mater. Horiz. 2017, 4, 694-700.

7. Shengtong Sun, Denis Gebauer, and Helmut Cölfen*. A General Strategy for Colloidal Stable Ultrasmall Amorphous Mineral Clusters in Organic Solvents.Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 1400-1405.

8. Zhouyue Lei, Wencheng Zhu, Shengtong Sun*, and Peiyi Wu*. MoS2-Based Dual-Responsive Flexible Anisotropic Actuators.Nanoscale 2016, 8, 18800-18807.

9. Shengtong Sun, Denis Gebauer, and Helmut Cölfen*. A Solvothermal Method for Synthesizing Monolayer Protected Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Clusters.Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 7036-7038.

10. Wei Li, Shengtong Sun, Qisi Yu, and Peiyi Wu*. Controlling the Morphology of BaCO3 Aggregates by Carboxymethyl Cellulose through Polymer Induced Needle-Stacking Self-Assembly. Cryst. Growth Des. 2010, 10, 2685-2692.