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SUBMITTER: Feilden E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5653810 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feilden Ezra E Ferraro Claudio C Zhang Qinghua Q García-Tuñón Esther E D'Elia Eleonora E Giuliani Finn F Vandeperre Luc L Saiz Eduardo E
Scientific reports 20171023 1
Natural structural materials like bone and shell have complex, hierarchical architectures designed to control crack propagation and fracture. In modern composites there is a critical trade-off between strength and toughness. Natural structures provide blueprints to overcome this, however this approach introduces another trade-off between fine structural manipulation and manufacturing complex shapes in practical sizes and times. Here we show that robocasting can be used to build ceramic-based com ...[more]