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- 20243D Printing of Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers
- 2024Engineered living composite materialscitations
- 20233D Printing of Flow-Inspired Anisotropic Patterns with Liquid Crystalline Polymerscitations
- 2022Three-dimensional printing of mycelium hydrogels into living complex materialscitations
- 2022Light-Based Printing of Leachable Salt Molds for Facile Shaping of Complex Structurescitations
- 20213D Printed Scaffolds for Monolithic Aerogel Photocatalysts with Complex Geometriescitations
- 2021High-performance all-bio-based laminates derived from delignified woodcitations
- 2021Experimental and numerical investigation of ply size effects of steel foil reinforced compositescitations
- 2020Bio-Inspired Platelet-Reinforced Polymers with Enhanced Stiffness and Damping Behaviorcitations
- 2019Tunable wood by reversible interlocking and bioinspired mechanical gradientscitations
- 2019Fabrication of flax fibre-reinforced cellulose propionate thermoplastic compositescitations
- 2019Damping behaviour of bio-inspired natural fibre composites
- 2019Delignified wood–polymer interpenetrating composites exceeding the rule of mixturescitations
- 2019Tunable Wood by Reversible Interlocking and Bioinspired Mechanical Gradientscitations
- 2019Densified cellulose materials and delignified wood reinforced composites
- 2019Quantifying the role of mineral bridges on the fracture resistance of nacre-like composites
- 2018Predicting the adhesion strength of thermoplastic/glass interfaces from wetting measurementscitations
- 2018Interfacial interactions in bicomponent polymer fiberscitations
- 2018Three-dimensional printing of hierarchical liquid-crystal-polymer structurescitations
- 2018Local reinforcement of aerospace structures using co-curing RTM of metal foil hybrid compositescitations
- 2018The fracture of thermosetting epoxy polymers containing silica nanoparticlescitations
- 2017Damping of carbon fibre and flax fibre angle-ply composite laminatescitations
- 2017Wettability and interphase adhesion of molten thermoplastics on glass fibres
- 2017The fracture of thermosetting polymers containing silica nanoparticles
- 2017Mineral Nano-Interconnectivity Stiffens and Toughens Nacre-like Composite Materialscitations
- 2017Rheological modelling of thermoset composite processingcitations
- 2016Damping of carbon fibre and flax fibre reinforced angle ply polymers
- 2016Mechanical properties of tough plasma treated flax fibre thermoplastic composites
- 2016Effect of fibre volume content on the mechanical performance of natural fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites
- 2015Experimental study of the stress transfer in discontinuous composites on the basis of a unit cell model
- 2015Steel foil reinforced composites
- 2015A process modeling toolkit developed to address scale-up challenges of out-of-autoclave manufacturing
- 2011Toughening of epoxy using core-shell particlescitations
- 2008The fracture of glass-fibre-reinforced epoxy composites using nanoparticle-modified matricescitations
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Quantifying the role of mineral bridges on the fracture resistance of nacre-like composites
Abstract
<p>The nacreous layer of mollusk shells holds design concepts that can effectively enhance the fracture resistance of lightweight brittle materials. Mineral bridges are known to increase the fracture resistance of nacre-inspired materials, but their role has been difficult to quantify. The challenge has been to isolate and control mineral bridge connectivity in a model composite with microstructures on the same scale as the biological material. In this study, we fabricate these tunable nacre-like composites from highly aligned alumina platelets, interconnected by titania mineral bridges and infiltrated with epoxy matrix phase, and experimentally quantify the influence of mineral bridge density on the fracture properties. Mineral bridge density from image analysis of composite cross sections was correlated with the fracture behavior in mechanical tests and a quantitative model was developed using the insight that shear lag describes the stress transfer through the mineral phase. This model quantitatively describes the relationship between the fracture strength of the composite, platelet strength, and mineral bridge density, which provides powerful guidelines for the design of lightweight brittle materials with enhanced fracture resistance. We illustrate this potential by fabricating nacre-like bulk composites with unparalleled fracture strength, 20% stronger than the previously reported materials.</p>