Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

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

  • 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-Hong Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12920
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Low-density compressible materials often suffer from fatigue-induced failure or limited elasticity. Here, the authors create a hierarchical multi-arch carbon material that achieves high compressibility, superior elasticity and fatigue resistance simultaneously, inspired by properties of arches in daily life.