[HTML][HTML] Porous ceramics: Light in weight but heavy in energy and environment technologies

Y Chen, N Wang, O Ola, Y Xia, Y Zhu - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Benefitting from the combined properties of intrinsic ceramic materials and advanced porous
configuration, lightweight porous ceramics with porosity ranging from 2.3 to 99% and pore …

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 …

Recent developments in nanocellulose-based aerogels in thermal applications: a review

S Ahankari, P Paliwal, A Subhedar, H Kargarzadeh - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Naturally derived nanocellulose (NC) is a renewable, biodegradable nanomaterial with high
strength, low density, high surface area, and tunable surface chemistry, which allows its …

Freeze-casting produces a graphene oxide aerogel with a radial and centrosymmetric structure

C Wang, X Chen, B Wang, M Huang, B Wang, Y Jiang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report the assembly of graphene oxide (GO) building blocks into a vertical and radially
aligned structure by a bidirectional freeze-casting approach. The crystallization of water to …

Freeze casting–A review of processing, microstructure and properties via the open data repository, FreezeCasting. net

KL Scotti, DC Dunand - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Freeze-casting produces materials with complex, three-dimensional pore structures which
may be tuned during the solidification process. The range of potential applications of freeze …

[HTML][HTML] Porous nanocellulose gels and foams: Breakthrough status in the development of scaffolds for tissue engineering

FV Ferreira, CG Otoni, J Kevin, HS Barud, LMF Lona… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
We report on the latest scientific advances related to the use of porous foams and gels
prepared with cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) and nanocrystals (CNC) as well as bacterial …

Strong, tough and stiff bioinspired ceramics from brittle constituents

F Bouville, E Maire, S Meille, B Van de Moortèle… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
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 …

Bioinspired large-scale aligned porous materials assembled with dual temperature gradients

H Bai, Y Chen, B Delattre, AP Tomsia, RO Ritchie - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Natural materials, such as bone, teeth, shells, and wood, exhibit outstanding properties
despite being porous and made of weak constituents. Frequently, they represent a source of …

Advancing the mechanical performance of glasses: perspectives and challenges

L Wondraczek, E Bouchbinder, A Ehrlicher… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glasses are materials that lack a crystalline microstructure and long‐range atomic order.
Instead, they feature heterogeneity and disorder on superstructural scales, which have …

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 …