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Freeze Casting: Freeze Casting for Assembling Bioinspired Structural Materials (Adv. Mater. 45/2017)
Author(s) -
Cheng Qunfeng,
Huang Chuanjin,
Tomsia Antoni P.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201770348
Subject(s) - materials science , casting , biomimetic materials , nanotechnology , composite material
The unique physics of seawater as it freezes inspires a technique to produce thinly layered composites that closely mimic natural nacre. The technique, called freeze casting or ice‐templating, is described by Antoni P. Tomsia and co‐workers in article number 1703155 . The technique creates materials with a hierarchical design that can be infiltrated with a variety of components to create novel materials for engineering applications.