Lorna J. Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she has been a faculty member since 1984. Her research interests focus on the mechanics of materials with a cellular structure such as honeycombs and foams and she is co-author, with Mike Ashby, of Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties (2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Part I. Background: 1. Introduction
2. The materials of nature
3. Structure and mechanics of cellular materials
Part II. Cellular Materials in Nature: 4. Honeycomb-like materials in nature
5. Foam-like materials in nature
6. Cellular structures in nature
7. Property charts for natural cellular materials and their uses
Part III. Cellular Materials in Medicine: 8. Cellular solids as biomedical materials
9. Interaction of biological cells with tissue engineering scaffolds.
