Stretchable heterogeneous composites with extreme mechanical gradients

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Libanori, Rafael ^a   Erb, Randall M ^a   Reiser, Alain ^a   Le Ferrand, Hortense ^a   Süess, Martin J ^a   Spolenak, Ralph ^a   Studart, André R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLYMER; POLYURETHAN;

COMPOSITE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERFACE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; METHODOLOGY; STIFFNESS;

ARTICLE; BONE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; ELASTICITY; ELECTRONICS; ENAMEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84871909121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2281     Document Type: Article

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