Purpose Bio-inspiration is an approach in engineering aimed at optimizing artificial systems
by borrowing biological concepts from nature. This review sets out to summarize the …

Although additive manufacturing offers numerous potential advantages for fabricating
functional, complex geometry zirconia parts with efficiency, industrial interest in practical …

Highlights•We used indentation testing and microscopy to characterize ZTA and
SiC.•Moduli, hardness, toughness were measured at low, intermediate and high loads …

In this study the crack growth resistance behavior and fracture toughness of human tooth
enamel were quantified using incremental crack growth measures and conventional fracture …

Alumina (Al2O3) and zirconia (ZrO2) have good overall properties and thus are widely used
oxide technical ceramics. The biggest drawback of Al2O3 is its low fracture toughness. In …

Although brittle material behavior is often considered undesirable, a quantitative measure of
“brittleness” is currently not used in assessing the clinical merits of dental materials …

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyse the fracture toughness of yttria-
stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) dental ceramics by means of the Vickers …

The CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy thin films with crystalline (solid solution) structure or
amorphous state were fabricated by magnetron sputtering process at different target powers …

Abstract Fe–Cr–Mo–Co–C–B–Si thin film metallic glasses were prepared through DC
magnetron sputtering under different sputtering currents. Microstructural studies of the thin …

Abstract Alumina (α-Al 2 O 3), one of the most widely used structural ceramics for industrial
applications, requires high temperature and long sintering time to achieve a fully dense …