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Title: Bioinspired nacre-like alumina with a bulk-metallic glass-forming alloy as a compliant phase

Abstract

Bioinspired ceramics with micron-scale ceramic "bricks" bonded by a metallic "mortar" are projected to result in higher strength and toughness ceramics, but their processing is challenging as metals do not typically wet ceramics. To resolve this issue, we made alumina structures using rapid pressureless infiltration of a zirconium-based bulk-metallic glass mortar that reactively wets the surface of freeze-cast alumina preforms. The mechanical properties of the resulting Al2O3 with a glass-forming compliant-phase change with infiltration temperature and ceramic content, leading to a trade-off between flexural strength (varying from 89 to 800 MPa) and fracture toughness (varying from 4 to more than 9 MPa·m½). The high toughness levels are attributed to brick pull-out and crack deflection along the ceramic/metal interfaces. Since these mechanisms are enabled by interfacial failure rather than failure within the metallic mortar, the potential for optimizing these bioinspired materials for damage tolerance has still not been fully realized.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [8];  [9]; ORCiD logo [9]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [10]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of); National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
  3. Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
  4. UNSW Sydney, NSW (Australia)
  5. Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of); Korea Inst. of Science and Technology, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  7. Japan Aerospace Explanation Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
  8. Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, DLR, Köln (Germany)
  9. Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria)
  10. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
OSTI Identifier:
1559188
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Wat, Amy, Lee, Je In, Ryu, Chae Woo, Gludovatz, Bernd, Kim, Jinyeon, Tomsia, Antoni P., Ishikawa, Takehiko, Schmitz, Julianna, Meyer, Andreas, Alfreider, Markus, Kiener, Daniel, Park, Eun Soo, and Ritchie, Robert O. Bioinspired nacre-like alumina with a bulk-metallic glass-forming alloy as a compliant phase. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08753-6.
Wat, Amy, Lee, Je In, Ryu, Chae Woo, Gludovatz, Bernd, Kim, Jinyeon, Tomsia, Antoni P., Ishikawa, Takehiko, Schmitz, Julianna, Meyer, Andreas, Alfreider, Markus, Kiener, Daniel, Park, Eun Soo, & Ritchie, Robert O. Bioinspired nacre-like alumina with a bulk-metallic glass-forming alloy as a compliant phase. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08753-6
Wat, Amy, Lee, Je In, Ryu, Chae Woo, Gludovatz, Bernd, Kim, Jinyeon, Tomsia, Antoni P., Ishikawa, Takehiko, Schmitz, Julianna, Meyer, Andreas, Alfreider, Markus, Kiener, Daniel, Park, Eun Soo, and Ritchie, Robert O. Wed . "Bioinspired nacre-like alumina with a bulk-metallic glass-forming alloy as a compliant phase". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08753-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1559188.
@article{osti_1559188,
title = {Bioinspired nacre-like alumina with a bulk-metallic glass-forming alloy as a compliant phase},
author = {Wat, Amy and Lee, Je In and Ryu, Chae Woo and Gludovatz, Bernd and Kim, Jinyeon and Tomsia, Antoni P. and Ishikawa, Takehiko and Schmitz, Julianna and Meyer, Andreas and Alfreider, Markus and Kiener, Daniel and Park, Eun Soo and Ritchie, Robert O.},
abstractNote = {Bioinspired ceramics with micron-scale ceramic "bricks" bonded by a metallic "mortar" are projected to result in higher strength and toughness ceramics, but their processing is challenging as metals do not typically wet ceramics. To resolve this issue, we made alumina structures using rapid pressureless infiltration of a zirconium-based bulk-metallic glass mortar that reactively wets the surface of freeze-cast alumina preforms. The mechanical properties of the resulting Al2O3 with a glass-forming compliant-phase change with infiltration temperature and ceramic content, leading to a trade-off between flexural strength (varying from 89 to 800 MPa) and fracture toughness (varying from 4 to more than 9 MPa·m½). The high toughness levels are attributed to brick pull-out and crack deflection along the ceramic/metal interfaces. Since these mechanisms are enabled by interfacial failure rather than failure within the metallic mortar, the potential for optimizing these bioinspired materials for damage tolerance has still not been fully realized.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-08753-6},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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