Biological materials are effectively synthesized, controlled, and used for a variety of purposes-in spite of limitations in energy, quality, and quantity of their building blocks. Whereas the chemical composition of materials in the living world plays a some role in achieving functional properties, the way components are connected at different length scales defines what material properties can be achieved, how they can be altered to meet functional requirements, and how they fail in disease states and other extreme conditions. Recent work has demonstrated this by using large-scale computer simulations to predict materials properties from fundamental molecular principles, combined with experimental work and new mathematical techniques to categorize complex structure-property relationships into a systematic framework. Enabled by such categorization, we discuss opportunities based on the exploitation of concepts from distinct hierarchical systems that share common principles in how function is created, linking music to materials science.

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材料设计——从原子到结构的视角。

生物材料被有效地合成、控制并用于各种目的——尽管它们的构建块在能量、质量和数量方面存在限制。虽然生命世界中材料的化学成分在实现功能特性方面发挥着一定的作用，但组件在不同长度尺度上的连接方式决定了可以实现哪些材料特性，如何改变它们以满足功能要求，以及它们如何失效在疾病状态和其他极端条件下。最近的工作通过使用大规模计算机模拟从基本分子原理预测材料特性，结合实验工作和新的数学技术将复杂的结构-特性关系分类为系统框架，证明了这一点。通过这样的分类，