Multiscale toughening mechanisms in biological materials and bioinspired designs

W Huang, D Restrepo, JY Jung, FY Su, Z Liu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biological materials found in Nature such as nacre and bone are well recognized as light‐
weight, strong, and tough structural materials. The remarkable toughness and damage …

A new era of integrative ice frozen assembly into multiscale architecturing of energy materials

JS Yeon, N Gupta, P Bhattacharya… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ice templating assembly has been investigated to construct macroporous channels of
functional nanomaterials with well‐defined homogeneous morphology. Recently, this …

Two-dimensional metal–organic framework superstructures from ice-templated self-assembly

Y Song, X Song, X Wang, J Bai, F Cheng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Here, we report the synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) layered metal–organic framework
(MOF) nanoparticle (NP) superstructures via an ice-templating strategy. MOF NP …

Rechargeable solid-state lithium metal batteries with vertically aligned ceramic nanoparticle/polymer composite electrolyte

X Wang, H Zhai, B Qie, Q Cheng, A Li, J Borovilas… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Composite solid electrolytes are attractive as they combine the high ionic conductivity of
ceramic nanoparticles and the excellent mechanical properties of polymer electrolytes …

Construction of 3D skeleton for polymer composites achieving a high thermal conductivity

Y Yao, J Sun, X Zeng, R Sun, JB Xu, CP Wong - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the growing heat removal issue in modern electronic devices, electrically insulating
polymer composites with high thermal conductivity have drawn much attention during the …

3D boron nitride foam filled epoxy composites with significantly enhanced thermal conductivity by a facial and scalable approach

X Xu, R Hu, M Chen, J Dong, B Xiao, Q Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer composites with excellent thermal conductivity, low dielectric constant and low
dielectric loss are urgently required for microelectronics and wireless communication …

Ice‐templated assembly strategy to construct 3D boron nitride nanosheet networks in polymer composites for thermal conductivity improvement

X Zeng, Y Yao, Z Gong, F Wang, R Sun, J Xu, CP Wong - Small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the growing heat removal issue of modern electronic devices, polymer composites
with high thermal conductivity have drawn much attention in the past few years. However, a …

Magnetically assisted slip casting of bioinspired heterogeneous composites

H Le Ferrand, F Bouville, TP Niebel, AR Studart - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Natural composites are often heterogeneous to fulfil functional demands. Manufacturing
analogous materials remains difficult, however, owing to the lack of adequate and easily …

Vertically aligned and interconnected SiC nanowire networks leading to significantly enhanced thermal conductivity of polymer composites

Y Yao, X Zhu, X Zeng, R Sun, JB Xu… - ACS applied materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Efficient heat removal via thermal management materials has become one of the most
critical challenges in the development of modern microelectronic devices. However …

Directional freezing of nanocellulose dispersions aligns the rod-like particles and produces low-density and robust particle networks

P Munier, K Gordeyeva, L Bergström… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We show that unidirectional freezing of nanocellulose dispersions produces cellular foams
with high alignment of the rod-like nanoparticles in the freezing direction. Quantification of …