High strain rate deformation of layered nanocomposites
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Insight into the mechanical behaviour of nanomaterials under the extreme condition of very high deformation rates and to very large strains is needed to provide improved understanding for the development of new protective materials. Applications include protection against bullets for body armour, micrometeorites for satellites, and high-speed particle impact for jet engine turbine blades. Here we use a microscopic ballistic test to report the responses of periodic glassy-rubbery layered block-copolymer nanostructures to impact from hypervelocity micron-sized silica spheres. Entire deformation fields are experimentally visualized at an exceptionally high resolution (below 10 nm) and we discover how the microstructure dissipates the impact energy via layer kinking, layer compression, extreme chain conformational flattening, domain fragmentation and segmental mixing to form a liquid phase. Orientation-dependent experiments show that the dissipation can be enhanced by 30% by proper orientation of the layers.
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LIPIT has been utilized previously to study the impact responses of gels, metals, ceramics, and a range of other materials.
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- Authors
- Lee, J.-H., Veysset, D., Singer, J. P., Retsch, M., Saini, G., Pezeril, T., Nelson, K. A., & Thomas, E. L.
- Affiliations
- Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (US)
- Corresponding author
- Thomas, Edwin L.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2012-11-06
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1164-1164
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2049387092
- Cited by
- 239
- References
- 46
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- FWCI
- 3.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- ERef Bayreuth (University of Bayreuth) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Ioannina
- Army Research Office (W911NF-07-D- 0004, W911NF)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Keywords
- high strain rate deformation, layered nanocomposites, block copolymers, hypervelocity impact, impact energy dissipation, liquid phase formation, layer orientation, protective materials
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