Organically linked iron oxide nanoparticle supercrystals with exceptional isotropic mechanical properties

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 522-528

  Dreyer, Axel ^a   Feld, Artur ^b   Kornowski, Andreas ^b   Yilmaz, Ezgi D ^a   Noei, Heshmat ^c   Meyer, Andreas ^b   Krekeler, Tobias ^a   Jiao, Chengge ^d   Stierle, Andreas ^b,c   Abetz, Volker ^b,e   Weller, Horst ^b,f,g   Schneider, Gerold A ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f Center for Applied Nanotechnology   (Germany)

^g KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; OLEIC ACID; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ANISOTROPIC SHAPES; BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITES; CROSSLINKING REACTION; IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS; NANOSCALE DIMENSIONS; ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS; ORGANIC MOLECULES;

IRON OXIDES;

EID: 84957044233     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4553     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Gao, H., Ji, B., Jäger, I. L., Arzt, E. & Fratzl, P. Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale. Lessons from nature. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 100, 5597-5600 (2003).
2. Meyers, M. A., Chen, P.-Y., Lin, Y.-M. A. & Seki, Y. Biological materials. Structure and mechanical properties. Prog. Mater. Sci. 53, 1-206 (2008).
3. Fratzl, P. &Weinkamer, R. Nature's hierarchical materials. Prog. Mater. Sci. 52, 1263-1334 (2007).
4. Tang, Z., Kotov, N. A., Magonov, S. & Ozturk, B. Nanostructured artificial nacre. Nature Mater. 2, 413-418 (2003).
5. Podsiadlo, P. et al. Ultrastrong and stiff layered polymer nanocomposites. Science 318, 80-83 (2007).
6. Bonderer, L. J., Studart, A. R. & Gauckler, L. J. Bioinspired design and assembly of platelet reinforced polymer films. Science 319, 1069-1073 (2008).
7. Walther, A. et al. Large-area, lightweight and thick biomimetric composites with superior material properties via fast, economic and green pathways. Nano Lett. 10, 2742-2748 (2010).
8. Siglreitmeier, M. et al. Multifunctional layered magnetic composites. Beilstein J. Nanotech. 6, 134-148 (2015).
9. Podsiadlo, P. et al. The role of order, nanocrystal size, and capping ligands in the collective mechanical response of three-dimensional nanocrystal solids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 8953-8960 (2010).
10. Miszta, K. et al. Hierarchical self-assembly of suspended branched colloidal nanocrystals into superlattice structures. Nature Mater. 10, 872-876 (2011).
11. Liaqat, F. et al. High-performance TiO2 nanoparticle/DOPA-polymer composites. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 36, 1129-1137 (2015).
12. Bouville, F. et al. Strong, tough and stiff bioinspired ceramics from brittle constituents. Nature Mater. 13, 508-514 (2014).
13. Studart, A. R. Bioinspired ceramics. Turning brittleness into toughness. Nature Mater. 13, 433-435 (2014).
14. Munch, E. et al. Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials. Science 322, 1516-1520 (2008).
15. Launey, M. E. et al. Designing highly toughened hybrid composites through nature-inspired hierarchical complexity. Acta Mater. 57, 2919-2932 (2009).
16. Weaver, J. C. et al. Analysis of an ultra hard magnetic biomineral in chiton radular teeth. Mater. Today 13, 42-52 (January-February, 2010).
17. Dumont, M., Tütken, T., Kostka, A., Duarte, M. J. & Borodin, S. Structural and functional characterization of enamel pigmentation in shrews. J. Struct. Biol. 186, 38-48 (2014).
18. Yu,W.W., Falkner, J. C., Yavuz, C. T. & Colvin, V. L. Synthesis of monodisperse iron oxide nanocrystals by thermal decomposition of iron carboxylate salts. Chem. Commun. 20, 2306-2307 (2004).
19. Yoo, D., Lee, J.-H., Shin, T.-H. & Cheon, J. Theranostic magnetic nanoparticles. Acc. Chem. Res. 44, 863-874 (2011).
20. Lee, N. & Heyon, T. Designed synthesis of uniformly sized iron oxide nanoparticles for efficient magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents. Chem. Soc. Rev. 41, 2575-2589 (2012).
21. Gamba, O. et al. Adsorption of formic acid on the Fe3O4(001) surface. J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 20459-20465 (2015).
22. Muhler, M., Schlögel, R. & Ertl, G. The nature of the iron oxide-based catalyst for dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene 2. Surface chemistry of the active phase. J. Catalys. 138, 413-444 (1992).
23. Zhang, L., He, R. & Gu, H.-C. Oleic acid coating on the monodisperse magnetite nanoparticles. Appl. Surf. Sci. 253, 2611-2617 (2006).
24. Bechtle, S. et al. Hierarchical flexural strength of enamel: transition from brittle to damage-tolerant behaviour. J. R. Soc. Interface 9, 1265-1274 (2012).
25. Yilmaz, E. D., Jelitto, H. & Schneider, G. A. Uniaxial compressive behavior of micro-pillars of dental enamel characterized in multiple directions. Acta Biomater. 16, 187-195 (2015).
26. Hugel, T., Rief, M., Seitz, M., Gaub, H. E. & Netz, R. R. Highly stretched single polymers: atomic-force-microscope experiments versus ab-initio theory. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 048301 (2005).
27. Reichmann, H. J. & Jacobsen, S. D. High pressure elasticity of natural magnetite crystal. Am. Mineral. 89, 1061-1066 (2004).
28. Stempflé, P., Pantalé, O., Rousseau, M., Lopez, E. & Bourrat, X. Mechanical properties of the elemental nanocomponents of nacre structure. Mater. Sci. Eng. C 30, 715-721 (2010).
29. Hu, K., Gupta, M. K., Kulkarni, D. D. & Tsukruk, V. V. Ultra-robust graphene oxide-silk fibroin nanocomposite membranes. Adv. Mater. 25, 2301-2307 (2013).
30. Kaushik, A. K.,Waas, A. M. & Arruda, E. M. A constitutive model for finite deformation response of layered polyurethane-montmorillonite nanocomposites. Mech. Mater. 43, 186-193 (2011).
31. Ang, S. F. et al. Comparison of mechanical behaviors of enamel rod and interrod regions in enamel. J. Mater. Res. 27, 448-456 (2012).
32. Li, X., Chang,W.-C., Chao, Y.-J.,Wang, R. & Chang, M. Nanoscale structural and mechanical characterization of a natural nanocomposite material: the shell of red abalone. Nano Lett. 4, 613-617 (2004).