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most citedStrong, Tough and Stiff Bioinspired Ceramics from Brittle Constituents

949 citations · 1.6k across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Fracture energy of 6H-SiC at the microscale: effects of testing geometry and notch preparation

Zhuoqi Lucas Li, Siyang Wang, Ao Li +5

Micromechanical testing enables small-scale fracture energy measurements, but values depend strongly on geometry and specimen preparation. Here, the fracture energy of the single-c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strong lead-free bioinspired piezoceramics for durable energy transducers

Ruxue Yang, Temesgen Tadeyos Zate, Peiren Wang +9

Durable, high-performance and eco-friendly lead-free piezoceramics are essential for next-generation sustainable energy transducers and electromechanical systems. While significant…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Inorganic/inorganic composites through emulsion templating

Tianhui Jiang, Shitong Zhou, Yinglun Hong +3

Inorganic/inorganic composites are found in multiple applications crucial for the energy transition, from nuclear reactor to energy storage devices. Their microstructures dictate a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Order induces toughness in anisotropic colloidal crystal composites

Victoria Vilchez, Shitong Zhou, Florian Bouville

Spatial ordering of matter elicits exotic properties sometimes absent from a material's constituents. A few highly mineralised natural materials achieve high toughness through delo…

physics.app-ph2021★ 58 cited

Carbon ablators with porosity designed for enhanced aerospace thermal protection

Erik Poloni, Florian Bouville, Alexander L. Schmid +8

Porous carbon ablators offer cost-effective thermal protection for aerospace vehicles during re-entry into planetary atmospheres. However, the exploration of more distant planets r…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 2 cited

Design principles for textured multi-layered composites using magnetically assisted slip casting

Hortense Le Ferrand, Florian Bouville, André R. Studart

In many natural multi-layered composites, such as in the dactyl club of Stomatopods or the shell of bivalve mollusks, the defining functional and structural properties are determin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Processing of dense bio-inspired ceramics with deliberate microtexture

Hortense Le Ferrand, Florian Bouville, André R. Studart

The architectures of biological hard materials reveal finely tailored complex assemblies of mineral crystals. Numerous recent studies associate the design of these local assemblies…

physics.app-ph2018★ 14 cited

Porous silicon carbide and aluminum oxide with unidirectional open porosity as model target materials for radioisotope beam production

M. Czapski, T. Stora, Caroline Tardivat +5

New silicon carbide (SiC) and aluminum oxide (Al2O3) of a tailor-made microstructure were produced using the ice-templating technique, which permits controlled pore formation condi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 23 cited

Dispersion of Boron Nitride Powders in Aqueous Suspensions with Cellulose

Florian Bouville, Sylvain Deville

The dispersion of nitride and carbide ceramic particles in water is difficult, due to the absence of hydroxyl groups on their surface. Boron nitride is not an exception and despite…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Reply to the correspondence: "On the fracture toughness of bioinspired ceramic materials"

Florian Bouville, Eric Maire, Sylvain Meille +3

This is a reply to the correspondence of Prof. Robert Ritchie: "On the fracture toughness of bioinspired ceramic materials", submitted to Nature Materials, which discusses the frac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 404 cited

Magnetically-Assisted Slip Casting of Bioinspired Heterogeneous Composites

Hortense Le Ferrand, Florian Bouville, Tobias P. Niebel +1

Composites are often made heterogeneous in nature to fulfill the functional demands imposed by the environment, but remain difficult to fabricate synthetically due to the lack of a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 70 cited

Self-Assembly of Faceted Particles Triggered by a Moving Ice Front

Florian Bouville, Eric Maire, Sylvain Deville

The possibility to align and organize faceted particles in the bulk offers intriguing possibilities for the design and discovery of materials and architectures exhibiting novel fun…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 57 cited

Templated Grain Growth in Macroporous Materials

Florian Bouville, Etienne Portuguez, Yunfei Chang +5

We demonstrate a facile method to produce crystallographically textured, macroporous materials using a combination of modified ice templating and templated grain growth (TGG). The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 949 cited

Strong, Tough and Stiff Bioinspired Ceramics from Brittle Constituents

Florian Bouville, Eric Maire, Sylvain Meille +3

High strength and high toughness are usually mutually exclusive in engineering materials. Improving the toughness of strong but brittle materials like ceramics thus relies on the i…