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Marine sponges inspire the next generation of skyscrapers and bridges


Marine sponges inspire the next generation of skyscrapers and bridges
September 21, 2020
By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications
(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) – When we think about sponges, we tend to think of something soft and squishy. But researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are using the glassy skeletons of marine sponges as inspiration for the next generation of stronger and taller buildings, longer bridges, and lighter spacecraft.
The skeleton of Euplectella aspergillum, a deep-water marine sponge. Credit: Matheus Fernandes/Harvard SEAS
In a new paper published in
Nature Materials, the researchers showed that the diagonally-reinforced square lattice-like skeletal structure of ....

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