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Metallic Aerogels: 3D Printing Hierarchical Silver Nanowire Aerogel with Highly Compressive Resilience and Tensile Elongation through Tunable Poisson's Ratio (Small 38/2017)
Author(s) -
Yan Pengli,
Brown Emery,
Su Qing,
Li Jun,
Wang Jian,
Xu Changxue,
Zhou Chi,
Lin Dong
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201770207
Subject(s) - aerogel , materials science , compressive strength , ultimate tensile strength , resilience (materials science) , nanowire , elongation , composite material , electrical resistivity and conductivity , nanotechnology , metal , conductivity , metallurgy , chemistry , engineering , electrical engineering
In article number 1701756 , P. Yan, D. Lin, and co‐workers report a novel three‐dimensional freeze assembling printing technique for silver nanowire aerogels with controllable density (down to 1.3 mg cm −3 ), high electrical conductivity of 1.3 S cm −1 , and excellent compressive resilience under 50% compressive strain. Remarkably, the printing methodology also enables the tuning of aerogel architectures with Poisson's ratio from negative to positive.