Extreme mechanical resilience of self-assembled nanolabyrinthine materials.

ABSTRACT: Low-density materials with tailorable properties have attracted attention for decades, yet stiff materials that can resiliently tolerate extreme forces and deformation while being manufactured at large scales have remained a rare find. Designs inspired by nature, such as hierarchical composites and atomic lattice-mimicking architectures, have achieved optimal combinations of mechanical properties but suffer from limited mechanical tunability, limited long-term stability, and low-throughput volumes that stem from limitations in additive manufacturing techniques. Based on natural self-assembly of polymeric emulsions via spinodal decomposition, here we demonstrate a concept for the scalable fabrication of nonperiodic, shell-based ceramic materials with ultralow densities, possessing features

SUBMITTER: Portela CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7084143 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature