The Laboratory of Biological and Bio-inspired Materials led by Dr. Ling Li is based at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech.

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Ling Li/Virginia Tech. But the diamondlike lattice alone doesn't fully explain how the ossicles stay strong. Within that lattice, the atoms that make up the calcite have their own pattern, which

In a study published in Materials Science, researchers led by Ling Li at Virginia Tech examined the skeleton of the knobby starfish, 

ME 3614 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia. Design of mechanical components subject to static 

2022/6/3 · Ling Li and his children join museum staff Sherrie Jennings (left) and Shannon Allencut (right) to cut the ribbon on his starfish skeleton exhibit at the Science Museum of Western Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts.

Ling Li The glass sponge, Euplectella aspergillum, possesses a lightweight, silica spicule-based, cylindrical lattice-like skeleton, representing an excellent model system for bioinspired lattices.

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Ling Li sat down with Marwa ElDiwiny on the Soft Robotics Podcast to discuss shells in nature, how they are composed, and how they manage damage. Virginia Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering 445 Goodwin Hall, 635 Prices Fork Road - MC 0238 Blacksburg, VA 24061

Ling Li joins Mary Roberts Baako, Executive Director of the Science Museum of Western Virginia, and Phyllis Leary Newbill, Associate Director of Educational Networks at the Virginia Tech Center for Educational Networks and Impacts (CENI), at the opening of the interactive starfish skeleton exhibit at the museum. Photo courtesy of CENI. Contact: