Nacre-mimetics with synthetic nanoclays up to ultrahigh aspect ratios

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Das, Paramita ^a   Malho, Jani Markus ^b   Rahimi, Khosrow ^a   Schacher, Felix H ^c   Wang, Baochun ^a   Demco, Dan Eugen ^a   Walther, Andreas ^a  

^a DWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR INTERACTIVE MATERIALS   (Germany)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; GLASS; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER; STIFFNESS; VISCOELASTIC FLUID;

ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CLAY; CROSS LINKING; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAS; HYDRATION; NACREMIMETICS; NANOCLAY; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; RIGIDITY; SURFACE AREA; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84955122469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6967     Document Type: Article

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