Highly porous layers of silica nano-spheres sintered by drying: Scaling up of the elastic properties from the beads to the macroscopic mechanical properties

Arnaud Lesaine, Daniel Bonamy, Georges Gauthier +2

Layers obtained by drying a colloidal dispersion of silica spheres are found to be a good benchmark to test the elastic behaviour of porous media, in the challenging case of high p…