External fields for the fabrication of highly mineralized hierarchical architectures

• Main Author: Le Ferrand, Hortense
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Ceramic; Biomimetic (Assembly)
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148672
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite lower hardness, stiffness, and resistance to harsh environments, heavy metallic parts and soft polymer-based composites are often preferred to ceramics because they offer higher resilience. By contrast, highly mineralized biomaterials combine these properties through hierarchical and heterog...