Nacreous aramid-mica bulk materials with excellent mechanical properties and environmental stability

Summary: Low density, high strength and toughness, together with good environmental stability are always desirable but hardly to achieve simultaneously for man-made structural materials. Replicating the design motifs of natural nacre clearly provides one promising route to obtain such kind of materi...

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Main Authors: Xiao-Feng Pan, Huai-Ling Gao, Kai-Jin Wu, Si-Ming Chen, Tao He, Yang Lu, Yong Ni, Shu-Hong Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220311688