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Ice-templated porous alumina structures

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In this paper, the formation of regular patterns is a common feature of many solidification processes involving cast materials, and regular patterns can be obtained in porous alumina by controlling the freezing of ceramic slurries followed by subsequent ice sublimation and sintering.
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This article is published in Acta Materialia.The article was published on 2007-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Directional solidification & Phase (matter).

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Bioinspired structural materials

TL;DR: The common design motifs of a range of natural structural materials are reviewed, and the difficulties associated with the design and fabrication of synthetic structures that mimic the structural and mechanical characteristics of their natural counterparts are discussed.
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Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors emulate Nature's toughening mechanisms through the combination of two ordinary compounds, aluminum oxide and polymethylmethacrylate, into ice-templated structures whose toughness can be over 300 times (in energy terms) that of their constituents.
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Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials

TL;DR: This work emulates nature's toughening mechanisms by combining two ordinary compounds, aluminum oxide and polymethyl methacrylate, into ice-templated structures whose toughness can be more than 300 times that of their constituents.
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Freeze-Casting of Porous Ceramics: A Review of Current Achievements and Issues

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a first understanding of the process as of today, with particular attention being paid on the underlying principles of the structure formation mechanisms and the influence of processing parameters on the structure.
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Hierarchically porous materials: synthesis strategies and structure design

TL;DR: This review addresses recent advances made in studies of hierarchically porous materials and methods to control their structure and morphology and hopes that this review will be helpful for those entering the field and also for those in the field who want quick access to helpful reference information.
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Stability of a Planar Interface During Solidification of a Dilute Binary Alloy

TL;DR: In this article, the stability of a moving planar liquid-solid interface during unidirectional freezing of a dilute binary alloy is theoretically investigated by calculating the time dependence of the amplitude of a sinusoidal perturbation of infinitesimal amplitude introduced into the planar shape.
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Freezing as a path to build complex composites.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how the physics of ice formation can be used to develop sophisticated porous and layered-hybrid materials, including artificial bone, ceramic-metal composites, and porous scaffolds for osseous tissue regeneration with strengths up to four times higher than those of materials currently used for implantation.
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Porous chitosan scaffolds for tissue engineering

TL;DR: The methods and structures described here provide a starting point for the design and fabrication of a family of polysaccharide based scaffold materials with potentially broad applicability in several tissue-relevant geometries.
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Physics of Ice

TL;DR: In this paper, the physics of ice and its structure are discussed, including elasticity, thermal, and lattice dynamical properties, as well as the deformation of polycrystalline ice.
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Freeze casting of hydroxyapatite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.

TL;DR: It is reported here how freeze casting can be applied to synthesize porous scaffolds exhibiting unusually high compressive strength, e.g. up to 145 MPa for 47% porosity and 65MPa for 56%porosity, which might open the way for hydroxyapatite-based materials designed for load-bearing applications.
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