This article overviews several areas of research into architectured materials which, in the opinion of the authors, are most topical and promising. The classes of materials considered are based on meso scale designs inspired by animate and inanimate Nature, but also on those born in the minds of scientists and engineers, without any inspiration from Nature. We present the principles governing the design of the emerging materials architectures, discuss their explored and anticipated properties, and provide an outlook on their future developments and applications.

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中尺度建筑材料：当前的一些趋势

本文概述了建筑材料的几个研究领域，在作者看来，这些领域是最热门和最有前途的。所考虑的材料类别基于受有生命和无生命的自然启发的中尺度设计，但也基于那些诞生于科学家和工程师头脑中的材料，而没有任何来自自然的灵感。我们介绍了新兴材料架构的设计原则，讨论了它们探索和预期的特性，并展望了它们未来的发展和应用。