Synergistic toughening of hard, nacre-mimetic MoSi2 coatings by self-assembled hierarchical structure

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xu, Jiang ^a,b   Zhao, Xiaoli ^c   Munroe, Paul ^d   Xie, Zonghan ^a,e  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NACRE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISULFIDES; ELASTIC MODULUS; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLYBDENUM; NACRE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84897656523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04239     Document Type: Article

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