Natural materials have always attracted intensive attention from multidisciplinary scientists
all over the world. In fact, the ingenious and reasonable synthetic strategies of the limited …

Polymethacrylimide (PMI) foams own the highest specific stiffness and strength of all foams.
In situ x-ray micro computed tomography (CT) is used to map three-dimensional (3D) …

For the engineering applications of freeze-cast porous ceramics, the demand targets are
often multiple and competing, which is a challenging problem to seek a Nash equilibrium in …

Additive manufacturing enables the fabrication of periodic ceramic lattices with controllable
micro-architectures. Many studies reported their catastrophic brittle fracture behaviour …

Freeze-casting has been wildly exploited to construct porous ceramics but usually requires
costly and demanding freeze-drying (high vacuum, size limit, and supercooled chamber) …

The directional freezing of β-Si 3 N 4 whiskers suspensions followed by high-temperature
sintering was employed for fabricating novel highly porous fibrous Si 3 N 4 three …

Porosity is a major casting defect in alloys with large solidification intervals due to the
disordered microstructure and broad mushy zones, which decreases badly the mechanical …

Taking lessons from nature offers an increasing promise toward improved performance in
man‐made materials. Here new cement materials with unidirectionally porous architectures …

Ice-templating technique enables the synthesis of novel ceramic materials with directional,
anisotropic pores, and the templated structure is highly tunable. Another factor that also …

Porous Fe 3 O 4 scaffolds were fabricated while subject to a low (7.8 mT) magnetic field
applied in helical and Bouligand motions using a custom-built tri-axial nested Helmholtz …