Printable and highly stretchable viscoelastic conductors with kinematically reconstructed conductive pathways

T Wang, Q Liu, H Liu, B Xu, H Xu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Printable and stretchable conductors based on metallic‐filler‐reinforced polymer composites
that can maintain high electrical conductivity at large strains are essential for emerging …

Micromechanics study on actuation efficiency of hard-magnetic soft active materials

R Zhang, S Wu, Q Ze, R Zhao - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Hard-magnetic soft active materials have drawn significant research interest in recent years
due to their advantages of untethered, rapid and reversible actuation, and large shape …

[HTML][HTML] Interfacial strength-controlled energy dissipation mechanism and optimization in impact-resistant nacreous structure

K Wu, Z Zheng, S Zhang, L He, H Yao, X Gong, Y Ni - Materials & Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Nacre with a combination of superior strength and toughness is one of the best natural body
armors due to its unique brick-and-mortar structure, which is recently regarded as the model …

Rubber-reinforced rubbers toward the combination of high reinforcement and low energy loss

S Fang, F Li, J Liu, L Zhang, D Wang, B Liu, S Wu… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Reinforcement is a fundamental issue in rubber science and engineering. Traditionally,
rubber reinforcement relies on the incorporation of rigid particles into rubber network or …

Mechanical Janus structures by soft–hard material integration

H Zhang, W Yang, Q Liu, Y Gao, Z Yue… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Engineering Janus structures that possess anisotropic features in functions have attracted
growing attention for a wide range of applications in sensors, catalysis, and biomedicine …

Failure progression and toughening mechanism of 3D-printed nacre-like structures under in-plane compression

Z Cui, M Zhang, Y Wang, Y Chen, R Hu… - Journal of the Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nacre (also called mother-of-pearl) is known to have a delicate balance of stiffness, strength,
and toughness, which originates from its 'brick-and-mortar'structure. In this study, nacre-like …

Exploring the effect of relative humidity on dynamic evolution of flax fibre's microfibril angle through in situ tensile tests under synchrotron X-ray diffraction

L Nuez, E Richely, J Perez, S Guessasma… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tensile properties of elementary flax fibres were investigated through in situ Synchrotron X-
ray diffraction in order to understand the effect of tensile loading, on the internal …

In situ imaging during compression of plastic bonded explosives for damage modeling

VW Manner, JD Yeager, BM Patterson, DJ Walters… - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
The microstructure of plastic bonded explosives (PBXs) is known to influence behavior
during mechanical deformation, but characterizing the microstructure can be challenging …

Fiber reorientation in hybrid helicoidal composites

D Wang, A Zaheri, B Russell, H Espinosa… - Journal of the Mechanical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Naturally occurring biological materials with stiff fibers embedded in a ductile matrix are
commonly known to achieve excellent balance between stiffness, strength and ductility. In …

Theoretical method for calculation of effective properties of composite materials with reconfigurable microstructure: Electric and magnetic phenomena

AA Snarskii, D Zorinets, M Shamonin… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a theoretical approach for calculating effective electric and magnetic properties
of composites, with field dependent restructuring of the filler. The theory combines the …