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SUBMITTER: Osada T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7643164 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Osada Toshio T Watabe Aiko A Yamamoto Joji J Brouwer Johannes C JC Kwakernaak Cees C Ozaki Shingo S van der Zwaag Sybrand S Sloof Willem G WG
Scientific reports 20201104 1
Bones of humans and animals combine two unique features, namely: they are brittle yet have a very high fracture toughness linked to the tortuosity of the crack path and they have the ability to repeatedly heal local fissures such that full recovery of overall mechanical properties is obtained even if the local bone structure is irreversibly changed by the healing process. Here it is demonstrated that Ti<sub>2</sub>AlC MAX phase metallo-ceramics also having a bone-like hierarchical microstructure ...[more]