Nanoscale-Structured Hybrid Bragg Stacks with Orientation-and Composition-Dependent Mechanical and Thermal Transport Properties: Implications for Nacre Mimetics and Heat Management Applications
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2022-03-25
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ACS Applied Nano Materials, Volume 5, issue 3, pp. 4119-4129
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Layered nanomaterials fascinate researchers for their mechanical, barrier, optical, and transport properties. Nacre is a biological example thereof, combining excellent mechanical properties by aligned submicron inorganic platelets and nanoscale proteinic interlayers. Mimicking nacre with advanced nanosheets requires ultraconfined organic layers aimed at nacre-like high reinforcement fractions. We describe inorganic/polymer hybrid Bragg stacks with one or two fluorohectorite clay layers alternating with one or two poly(ethylene glycol) layers. As indicated by X-ray diffraction, perfect one-dimensional crystallinity allows for homogeneous single-phase materials with up to a 84% clay volume fraction. Brillouin light spectroscopy allows the exploration of ultimate mechanical moduli without disturbance by flaws, suggesting an unprecedentedly high Young's modulus of 162 GPa along the aligned clays, indicating almost ideal reinforcement under these conditions. Importantly, low heat conductivity is observed across films, κ⊥ = 0.11-0.15 W m-1 K-1, with a high anisotropy of κ||/κ⊥ = 28-33. The macroscopic mechanical properties show ductile-to-brittle change with an increase in the clay volume fraction from 54% to 70%. Conceptually, this work reveals the ultimate elastic and thermal properties of aligned layered clay nanocomposites in flaw-tolerant conditions.Description
| openaire: EC/H2020/742829/EU//DRIVEN Funding Information: This work was supported by the German Science Foundation within the Collaborative Research Projects SFB 840 and SFB 1357. Z.W. and G.F. acknowledge financial support by ERC AdG SmartPhon (Grant 694977), and O.I. acknowledges ERC AdG Driven (Grant 742829) and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. Open access funded by Max Planck Society. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 American Chemical Society.
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Brillouin light spectroscopy, mechanical tensor, nacre mimetic, organic-inorganic nanocomposites, thermal conductivity
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Dörres, T, Bartkiewicz, M, Herrmann, K, Schöttle, M, Wagner, D, Wang, Z, Ikkala, O, Retsch, M, Fytas, G & Breu, J 2022, ' Nanoscale-Structured Hybrid Bragg Stacks with Orientation-and Composition-Dependent Mechanical and Thermal Transport Properties : Implications for Nacre Mimetics and Heat Management Applications ', ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4119-4129 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c00061