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Strong, tough and stiff bioinspired ceramics from brittle constituents
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High strength and high toughness are usually mutually exclusive in engineering materials. In ceramics, improving toughness usually relies on the introduction of a metallic or polymeric ductile phase, but this decreases the material's strength and stiffness as well as its high-temperature stability. Although natural materials that are both strong and tough rely on a combination of mechanisms operating at different length scales, the relevant structures have been extremely difficult to replicate. Here, we report a bioinspired approach based on widespread ceramic processing techniques for the fabrication of bulk ceramics without a ductile phase and with a unique combination of high strength (470 MPa), high toughness (22 MPa m(1/2)), and high stiffness (290 GPa). Because only mineral constituents are needed, these ceramics retain their mechanical properties at high temperatures (600 °C). Our bioinspired, material-independent approach should find uses in the design and processing of materials for structural, transportation and energy-related applications.
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- Authors
- Bouville, F., Maire, E., Meille, S., Van de Moortèle, B., Stevenson, A. J., & Deville, S.
- Venue
- Nature Materials
- Published
- 2014-03-23
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 508-514
- ISSN
- 1476-1122 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4660
- OpenAlex
- W2067220566
- Cited by
- 959
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 25.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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