Templating strategies for 3D-structured thermally conductive composites: recent advances and thermal energy applications

J Yang, X Shen, W Yang, JK Kim - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermally conductive polymer nanocomposites are enticing candidates for not only thermal
managements in electronics but also functional components in emerging thermal energy …

Freeze casting: from low‐dimensional building blocks to aligned porous structures—a review of novel materials, methods, and applications

G Shao, DAH Hanaor, X Shen, A Gurlo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has
been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials …

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 …

Flexible CNTs/CNF-WPU aerogel for smart electromagnetic wave absorbing with tuning effective absorption bandwidth

L Kong, S Zhang, Y Liu, H Xu, X Fan, J Huang - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the application environment of electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbing materials is
constantly changing, it is of great significance to design it with adjustable performance to …

An elegant coupling: Freeze-casting and versatile polymer composites

J Yang, W Yang, W Chen, X Tao - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The innovations of materials science and modern technologies are boosting the prosperity
of polymer composites in various emerging multi-disciplinary fields. Cooperating with the …

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 …

Advances in field‐assisted 3D printing of bio‐inspired composites: from bioprototyping to manufacturing

X Zhou, L Ren, Q Liu, Z Song, Q Wu… - Macromolecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biocomposite systems evolve to superior structural strategies in adapting to their living
environments, using limited materials to form functionality superior to their inherent …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of aerogel scaffolds with adjustable macro/micro-pore structure through 3D printing and sacrificial template method for tissue engineering

Z Wang, C Huang, X Han, S Li, Z Wang, J Huang… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Aerogel is a kind of promising biomaterial to prepare scaffolds used in tissue engineering
due to the characteristics of high water uptake, interconnected porous structure, and …

A review of multifunctional nacre-mimetic materials based on bidirectional freeze casting

W Gao, M Wang, H Bai - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nacre has achieved an excellent combination of strength and toughness through its unique
brick-and-mortar structure of layered aragonite platelets bonded with biopolymers …

Deformation induced absorption band-tunable smart CNTs/Ti3C2Tx-WPU electromagnetic wave absorbing aerogel

L Kong, G Zhang, H Cui, J Qi, T Wang, H Xu - Carbon, 2024 - Elsevier
Intelligent devices and multi-functional integrated electromagnetic functional materials have
been widely concerned, and it's really matter to develop intelligently adjustable …