A New Biomimetic Composite Structure with Tunable Stiffness and Superior Toughness via Designed Structure Breakage

Mimicking natural structures has been highly pursued recently in composite structure design to break the bottlenecks in the mechanical properties of the traditional structures. Bone has a remarkable comprehensive performance of strength, stiffness and toughness, due to the intricate hierarchical mic...

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Main Authors: Xiaohan Wang, Dongxu Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/3/636