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A Comparison Of Microstructure And Uniaxial Compressive Response Of Ice-Templated Porous Alumina Scaffolds Fabricated From Two Different Particle Sizes, Nikhil D. Dhavale
A Comparison Of Microstructure And Uniaxial Compressive Response Of Ice-Templated Porous Alumina Scaffolds Fabricated From Two Different Particle Sizes, Nikhil D. Dhavale
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Development of bio-inspired highly porous (>50 vol.%) cellular ceramics is crucial to meet the demand of high-performance lightweight and damage-tolerant materials for a number of cutting-edge applications including impact energy absorption, biomedical implants, and energy storage. A key design feature that is observed in many natural materials (e.g., nacre, bamboo, wood, etc.) is the presence of hierarchical microstructure that results in an excellent synergy of various material properties, which are otherwise considered as mutually exclusive in current paradigm of materials design. To this end, development of multilayered, interconnected and anisotropic cellular ceramics could benefit the aforementioned applications. However, mimicking …