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Super-elastic and fatigue resistant carbon material with lamellar multi-arch microstructure

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  • Huai-Ling Gao

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Yin-Bo Zhu

    (CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Li-Bo Mao

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Feng-Chao Wang

    (CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Xi-Sheng Luo

    (CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Yang-Yi Liu

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Yang Lu

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Zhao Pan

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Jin Ge

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Wei Shen

    (Nano-Materials and Environmental Detection Laboratory, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Ya-Rong Zheng

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Liang Xu

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Lin-Jun Wang

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Wei-Hong Xu

    (Nano-Materials and Environmental Detection Laboratory, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Heng-An Wu

    (CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Shu-Hong Yu

    (Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei Science Center of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China
    CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China)

Abstract

Low-density compressible materials enable various applications but are often hindered by structure-derived fatigue failure, weak elasticity with slow recovery speed and large energy dissipation. Here we demonstrate a carbon material with microstructure-derived super-elasticity and high fatigue resistance achieved by designing a hierarchical lamellar architecture composed of thousands of microscale arches that serve as elastic units. The obtained monolithic carbon material can rebound a steel ball in spring-like fashion with fast recovery speed (∼580 mm s−1), and demonstrates complete recovery and small energy dissipation (∼0.2) in each compress-release cycle, even under 90% strain. Particularly, the material can maintain structural integrity after more than 106 cycles at 20% strain and 2.5 × 105 cycles at 50% strain. This structural material, although constructed using an intrinsically brittle carbon constituent, is simultaneously super-elastic, highly compressible and fatigue resistant to a degree even greater than that of previously reported compressible foams mainly made from more robust constituents.

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  • Huai-Ling Gao & Yin-Bo Zhu & Li-Bo Mao & Feng-Chao Wang & Xi-Sheng Luo & Yang-Yi Liu & Yang Lu & Zhao Pan & Jin Ge & Wei Shen & Ya-Rong Zheng & Liang Xu & Lin-Jun Wang & Wei-Hong Xu & Heng-An Wu & Shu, 2016. "Super-elastic and fatigue resistant carbon material with lamellar multi-arch microstructure," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms12920
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12920
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