ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
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2022
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IF 4.898
Shoujing Zheng,Rong Huang,Ruijie Lin,Zishun Liu
The phase field fracture model is attracting significant interest. To model fracture in hyperelastic material and hydrogel, we have implemented a robust two- and three-dimensional phase field method in the commercial finite element code ABAQUS/Standard. The method is based on the rate-independent variational principle of diffuse fracture and also exploits the analogy between the phase field evolution law and the heat transfer equation, enabling the use of Abaqus’ in-built features and sparing the need for defining user elements. The framework is shown to accommodate both staggered and monolithic solution schemes. The approach can properly simulate the fracture for both hyperelastic material and hydrogel under different boundary conditions. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the robustness of the method. The provided source codes and the tutorials make it easy for practicing engineers and scientists to model crack propagation in hyperelastic and gel materials.
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材料科学
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计算科学
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Small
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2018
·Vol. 14
·期 45
·1802479
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IF 9.598
Ji Liu,Hao-Bin Zhang,Xi Xie,Rui Yang,Zhangshuo Liu,Yafeng Liu,Zhong-Zhen Yu
2D transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) have gained extensive attention recently due to their versatile surface chemistry, layered structure, and intriguing properties. The assembly of MXene sheets into macroscopic architectures is an important approach to harness their extraordinary properties. However, it is difficult to construct a freestanding, mechanically flexible, and 3D framework of MXene sheets owing to their weak intersheet interactions. Herein, an interfacial enhancement strategy to construct multifunctional, superelastic, and lightweight 3D MXene architectures by bridging individual MXene sheets with polyimide macromolecules is developed. The resulting lightweight aerogel exhibits superelasticity with large reversible compressibility, excellent fatigue resistance (1000 cycles at 50% strain), 20% reversible stretchability, and high electrical conductivity of ≈4.0 S m −1 . The outstanding mechanical flexibility and electrical conductivity make the aerogel promising for damping, microwave absorption coating, and flexible strain sensor. More interestingly, an exceptional microwave absorption performance with a maximum reflection loss of −45.4 dB at 9.59 GHz and a wide effective absorption bandwidth of 5.1 GHz are achieved.
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物理学
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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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2025
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IF 4.7
Hong-mei Zuo,Hao Yin,Guoji Yu,Hongjie Wang,He Wang,Yanxia Xie,Fangtao Ruan,Zhenzhen Xu,Lihua Zou,Dian-sen Li
The intensification of electromagnetic pollution has boosted the exploration of high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials. Herein, 2D MXene, 1D nickel (Ni) chain and PDMS were anchored on 3D porous skeleton of melamine sponge (MS) by a simple, inexpensive and scalable “dipping and coating” method, and a lightweight 3D hybrid nanostructure (MXene-Ni-PDMS/MS) was prepared. Super hydrophobic, high electric conductivity, excellent EMI shielding and outstanding super-elastic performances were obtained via the synergy effect of conductive 2D MXene and 1D Ni chain and hydrophobic PDMS. The results showed that the EMI of MXene-Ni-PDMS/MS with thickness of 10 mm could reach about 50 dB, which was 50 % higher than 25 dB of sponge with thickness of 2 mm, and could meet 20 dB commercial application. Moreover, the hybrid sponge exhibited super-elastic characteristics and could recover to its original state under 60 % strain during compressive fatigue. Even when it was subjected to 500 cycles at 40 % strain, the maximum compressive stress, Young's modulus and energy loss coefficient slightly decreased, indicating that the structure could maintain stable physical properties. The water contact angle could reach 145.1°, showing hydrophobic characteristics. This work offers a novel way for synthesis of excellent EMI shielding materials based on sponge.
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
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2020
·Vol. 138
·期 11
·50038
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IF 2.52
Linjiong Zhang,Lianfang Feng,Xueping Gu,Cailiang Zhang
Oil spills and organic chemical leakage have caused serious environmental problems, calling for highly effective adsorbents at low cost. Superelastic and hydrophobic-oleophilic modified melamine foams with ultralow amounts of well-dispersed graphene were prepared via dip-coating. The composite foams showed high selectivity for adsorbing various organic chemicals from water and could be regenerated easily. Moreover, excellent adsorption capacity ranging from 80 to 170 times its own weight was found depending on the density of organic chemicals. These coated foams show great potential for continuous oil/water separation and oil fume removal.
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COMPOSITES COMMUNICATIONS
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2021
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IF 6.617
Lei Zhao,Hongyan Wu,Wenling Jiao,Xia Yin,Yang Si,Jianyong Yu,Bin Ding
Health risks are more likely to occur in cold environments, making warm equipment highly in demand. Fluffy fibrous sponge obtained from direct electrospinning exhibited a great application prospect in heat retention fields but are often hampered by their weak mechanical stability and flammability used in high-temperature environments. How to create such materials having the robust mechanical property, flame retardancy and efficient thermal insulation simultaneously was a huge challenge. Herein, we report on a one-step method to manufacture superelastic and lightweight 3D fibrous sponge with antiflame function. The premise of this strategy is that polysulfone (PSU) can form a stable fluffy structure in a high-humidity environment, while polyurethane (PU) can absorb deformation energy caused by external forces. By adding OP-100A, the carbonization speed of PSU/PU fibrous sponge was increased and the antiflaming property was improved. Thanks to the polymer combination strategy, the fibrous sponge prepared has excellent tensile properties with the elongation at break reaching 160%, and unique elastic energy of compression with almost no plastic deformation after 100 compressions tests. Furthermore, the fibrous sponge also has obvious advantages in ultralight property, flame retardant property and heat retention property. The successful preparation of fibrous sponge opens a new way for the development of superelastic, lightweight, and flame-retardant heat retention materials.
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生物医学工程
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2021
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IF 8.128
Yangyang Feng,Dingding Zong,Yijie Hou,Xia Yin,Shichao Zhang,Lunyong Duan,Yang Si,Yongtang Jia,Bin Ding
Ultrafine fibrous porous materials obtained by electrospinning technology have broad application prospects in the field of noise reduction. However, the two-dimensional fibrous membranes faced low thickness and dense structure, resulting in a single internal structure and narrow sound absorption band. Here, we report a simple and robust strategy to prepare gradient structured fiber sponges with superelasticity and stretchability by combining humidity-assisted multi-step electrospinning and a unique physical/chemical dual cross-linking method. The prepared gradient structured fibrous sponge has a maximum tensile strength of 169 kPa and can lift a weight 10,000 times its weight without breaking. Besides, the material can still maintain a stable structure after 500 compression cycles at 60% strain. Meantime, the material has lightweight properties (density of 13.8 mg cm −3 ) and hydrophobicity (water contact angle of 152°). More importantly, the gradient change of porosity and pore diameter in the Z direction endowed the fibrous sponge material with high-efficiency absorption of broadband sound waves (with a noise reduction coefficient up to 0.53). The design of this gradient structured fiber sponge opens a new way for the development of ideal sound-absorbing materials.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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IF 9.229
Chenyang Cai,Zechang Wei,Leixin Deng,Yu Fu
Assembling MXene two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets solely into structurally robust three-dimensional (3D) multifunctional macroarchitectures with temperature-invariant elasticity is significant for widening their potential applications but has remained exceedingly challenging. To this end, a facile freeze-induced co-assembly was developed to allow the disparate integration of MXene 2D nanosheets into the directive heterogeneities to easily customize the controllable 3D architectures for geometry accessibility, structure integrity, and function adaptability. With functionalized cellulose nanocrystal serving as a structural modifier and cross-linking by polyurethane as well as manipulating the directionally ice templating process, multilevel nanostructured configurations with interconnected porous channels could be obtained for biomimetic aerogel electrodes across multiple length scales. Benefiting from the high ion pathway from the low-tortuosity topology, MXene aerogels showed outstanding electrochemical property (225 F/g), high-rate capacity, and temperature-invariant superelasticity (from 0 to 150 °C), which surpassed some of the best reported values. MXene quasi-solid-state supercapacitors presented superior electrochemistry (energy density: 38.5 μWh/cm2) and outstanding cycle ability (86.7% after 4000 cycles). Exhibiting excellent photoresponse capacity, they could be used as an integrated photodetector. More importantly, specially designed bio-mimicking structures with mechanically self-adaptive resilience could promote MXene 3D aerogels to apply in wearable electronic devices, monitoring various human motions. This work will shed light on MXene aerogels for smart and self-powered lightweight electronics.
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纳米技术
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能源存储
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2023
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Hengrui Wang,Yue Jiang,Zhewen Ma,Yongqian Shi,Yanjun Zhu,Ruizhe Huang,Yuezhan Feng,Zubin Wang,Min Hong,Jiefeng Gao,Long-Cheng Tang,Pingan Song
MXene aerogels have shown great potential for many important functional applications, in particular electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. However, it has been a grand challenge to create mechanically hyperelastic, air-stable, and durable MXene aerogels for enabling effective EMI protection at low concentrations due to the difficulties in achieving tailorable porous structures, excellent mechanical elasticity, and desired antioxidation capabilities of MXene in air. Here, a facile strategy for fabricating MXene composite aerogels by co-assembling MXene and cellulose nanofibers during freeze-drying followed by surface encapsulation with fire-retardant thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) is reported. Because of the maximum utilization of pore structures of MXene, and conductive loss enhanced by multiple internal reflections, as-prepared aerogel with 3.14 wt% of MXene exhibits an exceptionally high EMI shielding effectiveness of 93.5 dB, and an ultra-high MXene utilization efficiency of 2977.71 dB g g −1 , tripling the values in previous works. Owing to the presence of multiple hydrogen bonding and the TPU elastomer, the aerogel exhibits a hyperelastic feature with additional strength, excellent stability, superior durability, and high fire safety. This study provides a facile strategy for creating multifunctional aerogels with great potential for applications in EMI protection, wearable devices, thermal management, pressure sensing, and intelligent fire monitoring.
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电子工程
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化学工程
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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IF 7.7
Weikang Ke,Fang Ge,Xiaolong Shi,Yutao Zhang,Tianyu Wu,Xi Zhu,Yaming Cheng,Yiqian Shi,Zhongkai Wang,Liang Yuan,Youxian Yan
Aerogels with low thermal conductivity and high adsorption capacity present a promising solution to curb water pollution caused by organic reagents as well as mitigate heat loss. Although aerogels exhibiting good adsorption capacity and thermal insulation have been reported, materials with mechanical integrity, high flexibility and shear resistance still pose a formidable task. Here, we produced bacterial cellulose-based ultralight multifunctional hybrid aerogels by using freeze-drying followed by chemical vapor deposition silylation method. The hybrid aerogels displayed a low density of 10–15 mg/cm 3 , high porosity exceeding 99.1 %, low thermal conductivity (27.3–29.2 mW/m . K) and superior hydrophobicity (water contact angle>120 o ). They also exhibited excellent mechanical properties including superelasticity, high flexibility and shear resistance. The hybrid aerogels demonstrated high heat shielding efficiency when used as an insulating material. As a selective oil absorbent, the hybrid aerogels exhibit a maximum adsorption capacity of up to approximately 156 times its own weight and excellent recoverability. Especially, the aerogel's highly accessible porous microstructure results in an impressive flux rate of up to 162 L/h . g when used as a filter in a continuous oil-water separator to isolate n-hexane-water mixtures. This work presents a novel endeavor to create high-performance, sustainable, reusable, and adaptable multifunctional aerogels.
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INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
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2024
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IF 5.6
Kangkang Zhang,Lin Liu,Ning Li,Shi Junjie,Chunwang Yang,Li Changzhao,Xiaorui Yang,Wenlong Sun,Siyu Cui,Yi Sun,Jun Li,Yushan Yang,Jian Qiu
Nanocellulose is one of the most abundant renewable resources on earth and is used in many applications due to its excellent physical and chemical properties, and it is an important biopolymer raw material to support human well-being. However, current cellulose-based aerogel nanocomposites are plagued by irreconcilable contradictions between thermomechanical and waterproofing characteristics due to their hygroscopicity . Herein, sustainable insulating cellulose aerogel nanocomposites are prepared from tempo-oxidized bamboo cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with a continuous orientation-free pore architecture formed by CNFs/PVA pre-hydrogel aggregates, which combine to become the basic structural unit for producing superelastic properties. The resulting lightweight CNFs/PVA aerogels (CNPA) with a hierarchical orientation-free pore architecture and density about 5–20 kg m 3 achieve an optimal thermomechanical and insulation trade-off, demonstrating temperature-invariant compressibility (–100–500 ℃) and a low thermal conductivity of 38.2 mW m –1 K –1 at 300 ℃. Particularly, the flyweight CNPA retained its structural integrity after more than 10 6 cycles at ɛ=20 %, 10 5 cycles at ɛ=50 %, and 10 4 cycles at ɛ=80 %. Furthermore, CNPA also exhibits robust liquid-repellency with a WCA exceeding 160.3°. This lightweight cellulose-based nanocomposites, although constructed using an intrinsically hygroscopicity nanocellulose-constituent, is simultaneously superelastic, fatigue-resistant, thermomechanical, and waterproofing performance.
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生物化学
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EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 5.8
Zedong He,Hao Zhang,Ju Xie,Ti Zhou,Jie Zhang
Silicon-containing polyesters represent a novel class of polymers that integrate silicone and polyester units within their main chain. Polysiloxanes typically consist of flexible chain segments, while polyesters are characterized by their rigidity. The combination of these two components in the main chain offers the potential for tunable properties across a broad range. For the first time, a new organosilicon cyclic ester monomer (Si-Mon) was synthesized using a pseudo-high dilution condensation method. Both theoretical and experimental studies confirm that the ring-opening reaction site of Si-Mon is the ester group, rather than the Si-O-Si bond. Silicon-containing polyesters (SiPET-Series 1) with molecular weights exceeding 20,000 Da were efficiently and rapidly synthesized at room temperature, utilizing benzyl alcohol as the initiator and t-BuP 4 as the catalyst. Organosilicon polyester diols (SiPET-Series 2) with varying molecular weights were produced using 1,4-benzenedimethanol as the initiator. Additionally, a new type of organosilicon polyester elastomer (SiPET-E) was developed by employing SiPET-Series 2 as the base gum and (2,4,6-trioxotriazine-1,3,5(2H,4H,6H)- triyl)tris(hexamethylene)isocyanate (THDI) as the crosslinking agent. The stress–strain behavior of SiPET-E is influenced by the molecular weight of SiPET-Series 2. Notably, SiPET-E exhibits remarkable properties; for instance, it demonstrates superelastic characteristics when the molecular weight of SiPET-Series 2 is 13,000 g/mol, achieving a tensile strength of 2.56 MPa and an elongation at break of 776 % without the use of reinforcing fillers.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2020
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IF 8.758
Hongyan Wu,Yuyao Li,Lei Zhao,Sai Wang,Yucheng Tian,Yang Si,Jianyong Yu,Bin Ding
Health risks in an extremely cold environment make warm retention equipment highly desirable. However, creating materials with a high warm retention performance and robust mechanical property to durably prevent against the harsh conditions is highly challenging. Herein, we report on a one-step and facile strategy to fabricate stretchable and superelastic fibrous sponges by creating unique “stiff–soft” polymer networks within fibers and bonding architecture among fibers. The premise of this design is that stiff polystyrene can endow materials with rigidity and soft polyurethane can absorb energy during mechanical deformation. Benefiting from this systematic tailoring for the polymer and assembling networks, the resultant fibrous sponges exhibit a unique tensile recovery property, a large breaking elongation of 70%, and an outstanding resilience for resisting 100 cyclic compressions with 50% strain under −50 °C. Moreover, the fibrous sponges possess dramatic characteristics of high porosity (∼99.31%), ultralight property (volume density = 7.68 mg cm–3), and effective warmth retention (thermal conductivity = 27.6 mW m–1 K–1), as well as technical features of the simple assembly process to scale up easily. The preparation of fibrous sponges provides a new vision for developing ultralight and efficient warmth retention materials.
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