Bio-inspired structured boron carbide-boron nitride composite by reactive spark plasma sintering

• Main Authors: Silberschmidt, V., Xie, Sky Shumao, Vasylkiv, Oleg, Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Composite materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104529; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20227
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nature creates composite materials with complex hierarchical structure that possesses impressive mechanical properties enhancement capabilities. An approach to improve mechanical properties of conventional composites is to mimic biological material structured ‘hard’ core and ‘soft’ matrix system. Th...