Computational design of biopolymer aerogels and predictive modelling of their nanostructure and mechanical behaviour

Abstract To address the challenge of reconstructing or designing the three-dimensional microstructure of nanoporous materials, we develop a computational approach by combining the random closed packing of polydisperse spheres together with the Laguerre–Voronoi tessellation. Open-porous cellular netw...

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Main Authors: Rajesh Chandrasekaran, Markus Hillgärtner, Kathirvel Ganesan, Barbara Milow, Mikhail Itskov, Ameya Rege
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89634-1